Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Open Access Published by Berghahn Books 2021

Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Edited by: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800733022

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

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208

eBook

Published: October 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781800733022