Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Edited by: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann

Volume 8 in the series Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800732360

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About this book

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage.

Author / Editor information

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann has been a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and teaches anthropology at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is the co-editor of Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area (LIT Publishers, 2007) and author of The Return of Private Property: Rural Life after Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan (LIT Publishers, 2010).

Reviews

“Contains a set of impressive ethnographic studies from a wide range of locations, introduced and tied together by an extremely clear, thorough and strong Introduction by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann.” • Frances Pine, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Introduction: Moral Economy at Work Lale Yalçın-Heckmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Freedom and Control: Analysing the Values of Niche Business Owners in Aarhus, Denmark Anne-Erita G. Berta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2 The ‘Good’ Employer: Mutual Expectations amidst Changing Employment Situations in Pathein, Myanmar Laura Hornig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 Moral Economy and Mutuality at Work: Labour Practices in Tobacco Shops Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 The Embedded Trajectory of Small-Scale Enterprises in Provincial India Sudeshna Chaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 The Morality of Relatedness in Medium-Sized Businesses in Central Anatolia Ceren Deniz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6 Post-Soviet Garment Manufacturing in the Era of Global Competition: Between Precarity, Creative Work and Developmental Hopes Daria Tereshina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7 FIAT Automobiles Serbia: The Split Moral Economy of Public–Private Partnerships Ivan Rajković Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8 Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in Bulgaria Detelina Tocheva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Afterword: Moral Economy in Context James G. Carrier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Political and Economic Anthropology; Sociology

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Published: October 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781800732360