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Work in a modern society
No other new studies on the history of work and labour in the German speaking world available Documents recent original research by German speaking scholars whose work is not easily accessible in English Relates historical findings to the present in which the restructuring of the wor...
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The history of labour intermediation
Investigates job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explores how looking for work becomes a means by which participants articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. The chapters illustrat...
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Going first class?
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripat...
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The power of entrepreneurs
Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various uphe...
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Culturing money
Gives detailed analyses of some of the ways in which living people grapple with and try to make sense of pressing social and economic challenges in times of societal transformations posed by emergent capitalist relations and an increased influence of and dependence on a market economy. While...
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On the origin of tourist experiences
Author places the key emphasis on the content of the stories in a historical longitudinal perspective with a phenomenological approach. Work has been fully revised form the Dutch version to better suit English readers.
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Commerce as politics
This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert them...
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Cars
Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car business since Henry Ford.
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Disenchantment with market economics
The life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval stand at the centre of the book. It sets out in 1989 at the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall witnessing the confrontations with the market ...
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Disrupted landscapes
An environmental history of postsocialism. An ethnography of the bureaucracy of Southeastern European countries. Portrays environmental changes in the postsocialist world. Discusses local political dynamics in the rural postsocialist world.
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The pleasure of a surplus income
Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. At a time when part-time jobs are ubiquitous, it is easy to forget that they are a relatively new phenomenon. This book explores the reasons behind the introduction of this specific form of work in West Germany an...
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The silk roads
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, ...
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Latin america facing china
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third larges...
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The quest for economic empire
German unification evoked ambivalent reactions outside its borders: it revived disquietingmemories of attempts by German big business during the two world wars to build an economic empire in Europe in conjunction with the military and the government bureaucracy. But thereare also high hopes tha...
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Explorations in economic anthropology
At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily fro...
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Resistance and the state
There has been growing concern about "failed states" around the world, and since the massacre of the Royal family in Nepal in 2001 increasing media attention has focused on the decline of the state and the rise of the Maoist rebels in this Himalayan kingdom where so many Westerners have taken t...
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Credit and debt in an unequal society
Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.
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Marketing hope
Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
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Money in the german-speaking lands
Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political unification through economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory in German-speaking lands from the late Renaissance until t...
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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.
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Hunters and gatherers in the modern world
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more tha...
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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...
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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...
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Experiencing wages
When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditi...
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