Spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline : factory women in Malaysia /
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| Author / Creator: | Ong, Aihwa |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1987. |
| Description: | xvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in the anthropology of work. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/854450 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Tables, Maps and Diagrams
- Preface
- Part I. Capitalist Development and Cultural Experience
- 1. Spirits and Discipline in Capitalist Transformation
- 2. Malay Peasants from Subsistence to Commodity Production
- Rural Malay Society on the Eve of British Intervention
- Colonial Rule: Malay Immigrants and Peasants
- Constructing a "Malay Yeomanry"
- Malay Peasants Under Colonialism: The View from Below
- Part II. The Kampung Society of Coastal Selangor
- 3. Tropical Confluences: Rural Society, Capital, and the State
- A New Tropical Configuration: Kebun, Ladang, and Free Trade Zone
- Rural Malays, Land Hunger, and Bureaucratic Capitalism
- Administering Rural Development and Bureaucratic Culture
- 4. Sungai Jawa: Differentiation and Dispersal
- Tanam Modal, Jual Tenaga: Planting Capital, Selling Labor Power
- Emergent Class Structure
- 5. Domestic Relations: The Reconfiguration of Family Life
- Families, Spirits, and Other Familiars
- Boys and Girls: Schooling for Success
- Daughters and Sons: Cooperation and Conflict
- The Fractured Day
- 6. Marriage Strategies: Negotiating the Future
- Marriage Strategies of Earlier Generations
- Marriage Strategies and the Commodity Logic
- Delayed Marriages and Sexual Images
- Part III. Neophyte Factory Women in Late Capitalism
- 7. The Modern Corporation: Manufacturing Gender Hierarchy
- Capitalist Discipline and Cultural Discourse
- The State, Export-Industrialization, and Cultural Models
- Japanese Corporations in Kuala Langat
- 8. Neophyte Factory Women and the Negative Image
- Sexual Metaphors and Social Control
- The Kampung and the World
- 9. Spirits of Resistance
- A New Subjectivity
- Unleased Spirits: The World Decentered
- 10. Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index