Flexible capitalism

Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary ec...

Arctic abstractive industry

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Embodying exchange

Embodying Exchange addresses the infrastructural, legal and moral complexities in contemporary world trade through an ethnographic analysis of the interface of multinational brand manufacturers and popular traders in the Bolivian Andes.

Developmentality

It provides an ethnography of aid partnership drawing on detailed analysis of BOTH the donor (World Bank) and recipient (Uganda) , as well as their practical encounter. The analysis builds on multi-sited fieldwork conducted WITHIN both the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry. Novel in ...

Tax justice and the political economy of global capitalism, 1945 to the present

An informed review of the exisitng literature on political economy Explains the intellectual accomplishments of the great early and mid-20th century writers on global economic justice Links together the questions of tax, justice and development Discusses the contradictory effects...

Morality and economic growth in rural west africa

Based on fieldwork conducted in 2 national economic cycles, one of petroleum-boom prosperity, the other of macro-economic decline Unveils new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah Describes a uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation, limiting the ...

Unraveling management

Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about ma...

Working for the enemy

General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing st...

On the nervous edge of an impossible paradise

Assembling financialisation

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global c...

The brave new world of european labor

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to low...

Making a difference?

A collection of detailed and informative essays and case studies. Explores the emerging and important field of social assessment practices, including displacement and resettlement, in China. Utilises real-life experiences from the various contributors to highlight development policie...

Social democracy and monetary union

Since the late 1960s social democrats have become the dominant political force in the European Union. In fact, Social Democrats govern in no less than 11 of the 15 member states. Simultaneously, the EU has embarked on its most far-reaching project yet, namely Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); ...

Tibetans in nepal

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international ...

The economy in jewish history

Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, argui...

Rebellious families

Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on...

Property and equality

The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting researc...

Losing place

Refugee flight, settlement, and repatriation are not static, self-contained, or singular events. Instead, they are three stages of an ongoing process made and mirrored in the lives of real people. For that reason, there is an evident need for historical and longitudinal studies of refugee popul...

Recasting west german elites

The rapid shift of German elite groups' political loyalties away from Nazism and toward support of the fledgling democracy of the Federal Republic, in spite of the continuity of personnel and professional structures, has surprised many scholars of postwar Germany. The key, Hayse argues, lies in...

Corporate scandal

When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North Am...

From tax populism to ethnic nationalism

During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in the other Scandinavian countries, such par...

The german economy during the nineteenth century

In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again...

European business, dictatorship, and political risk, 1920-1945

For much of the twentieth century, the prevalence of dictatorial regimes has left business, especially multinational firms, with a series of complex and for the most part unwelcome choices. This volume, which includes essays by noted American and European scholars such as Mira Wilkins, Gerald F...

Global migrants, global refugees

In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economi...