Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. Based on contemporary and historical ethnographic material, the book unpacks the 'world of industry' in the context of the shop floor, the family, and the city, revealing the rich social and political texture underpinning economic development. It also provides a critical discussion of the assumptions that inform much of the social science literature on industrialisation and industrial 'modernity'.

The reader is divided into four thematic sections, each with a clear and informative introduction: historical development of industrial capitalism; shopfloor organisation; the relationships between the workplace and the home; the teleology of industrial 'modernity' and working-class consciousness.

With readings by key writers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, Industrial Work and Life is the essential introduction to the study of industrialisation in different societies. It will appeal to students across a wide range of subjects including: anthropology, comparative sociology, social history, development studies, industrial relations and management studies.

Includes essays by: E.P. Thompson, Aihwa Ong, Jonathan Parry, Thomas C. Smith, Harry Braverman, Michael Burawoy, Huw Beynon, Françoise Zonabend, James Carrier, Leslie Salzinger, Ching Kwan Lee, Ronald Dore, Tom Gill, Carla Freeman, Max Gluckman, James Ferguson, Chitra Joshi, Lisa Rofel, Geert De Neve, Karl Marx, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Robert Roberts, June Nash, Christena Turner.

About the editors

Geert De Neeve is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Massimilano Mollona is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Jonathan Parry is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Contents

General introduction
PART 1: TIME AND WORK DISCIPLINE
Sectional Introduction
1. Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism, Edward Palmer Thompson
2. The production of possession: Spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia, Aihwa Ong
3. Satanic fields, pleasant mills: work in an Indian steel plant, Jonathan Parry,
4. Peasant time and factory time in Japan, Thomas C. Smith
PART 2: WORK ORGANISATION
Sectional Introduction
5. Scientific Management, Harry Braverman
6. Thirty years of making out, Michael Burawoy
7. Controlling the line, Huw Beynon
8. The nuclear everyday, Françoise Zonabend
Part 3: 'WORK' AND 'LIFE'
Sectional Introduction
9. Emerging alienation in production: a Maussian history, James Carrier
10. Gendered Meanings in Contention, Leslie Salzinger
11. Local Despotism, Ching Kwan Lee
12. The enterprise as a community, Ronald Dore,
13. Yoseba and Ninpudashi: Changing Patterns of Employment on the fringes of the Japanese Economy, Tom Gill
14. Femininity and flexible labor: Fashioning class through gender on the global assembly line, Carla Freeman
PART 4: INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AS TELOS
Sectional Introduction
15. Anthropological problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution, Max Gluckman
16. Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism, James Ferguson
17. Despair, Chitra Joshi
18. The Poetics of Productivity, Lisa Rofel
19. Asking for and giving baki, Geert De Neve
PART 5: THE WORKING CLASS?
Sectional Introduction
20. Bourgeois and proletarians, Karl Marx
21. Perspectives on the politics of class, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
22. Class structure in the classic slum, Robert Roberts
23. The cultural roots of working class identity in the Bolivian tin mines, June Nash
24. Learning to Protest in Japan, Christena Turner
Bibliography
Index