How do people experience power within capitalist societies?
Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of
pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive
forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power
relations can exist in combination with binary dynamics such as
domination and resistance. This volume addresses growing interests
in linking past and present power relationships engendered by
capitalism and in conducting historical archaeology as
anthropology.
"The Plurality of Power: Industrial Capitalism and the
Nineteenth-Century Company Town of Fayette, Michigan," explores the
subtle distribution of power within American industrial capitalism
through a case study of a company town. Issues surrounding power
and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of
power. In the first category, the company imposed a system of
structural, class-based power that is most visible in hierarchical
differences in pay and housing, as well as consumer behavior. A
second category addresses disciplinary activities surrounding
health and the human body, as observed in the built environment,
medical artifacts, disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence
of intestinal parasites, and unequal access to healthcare. The
third ensemble of power relations is heterarcical and entwined with
non-economic capital (social, symbolic, and cultural). Individuals
and groups drew upon different forms of capital to bolster social
status and express identity both within and apart from the
corporate hierarchy. The goal in combining these diverse ideas is
to explore the plurality of power relationships in past industrial
contexts and to assert their relevance in the anthropology of
capitalism.
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