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Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is
a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the
ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by
its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of
fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and
photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down.
Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual
workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a
clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are
sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of
exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and
outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A
central concern is with the intersection between class, caste,
gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most
contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured
as the 'structuration' of castes has declined. The wider
theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under
which the so-called 'working class' has any realistic prospect of
unity.
What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty
studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This
volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and
fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem.
In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume
points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into
account the wider system of class and power relations in which it
is rooted. This volume suggests that 'democracy in India may be as
big a part of the problem as it is of the solution.'
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative
questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling.
Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of
anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and
sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and
religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political
leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from
the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity
to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed
by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame
this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an
engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents
an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology
today.
A major history of the British Empire's early involvement in the
Middle East Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how
vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the
British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European
might use to reach the subcontinent-through Egypt and the Red Sea,
and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands is a
panoramic history of this vibrant and explosive age. Charting the
development of Britain's political interest in the Middle East from
the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, Jonathan Parry
examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian
officials, describing how they sought influence with local Arabs,
Mamluks, Kurds, Christians, and Jews. He tells a story of
commercial and naval power-boosted by the arrival of steamships in
the 1830s-and discusses how classical and biblical history fed into
British visions of what these lands might become. The region was
subject to the Ottoman Empire, yet the sultan's grip on it appeared
weak. Should Ottoman claims to sovereignty be recognised and
exploited, or ignored and opposed? Could the Sultan's government be
made to support British objectives, or would it always favour
France or Russia? Promised Lands shows how what started as a
geopolitical contest became a drama about diplomatic competition,
religion, race, and the unforeseen consequences of history.
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, Francoise 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.
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, Francoise 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.
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative
questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling.
Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of
anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and
sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and
religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political
leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from
the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity
to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed
by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame
this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an
engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents
an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology
today.
Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is
a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the
ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by
its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of
fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and
photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down.
Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual
workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a
clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are
sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of
exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and
outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A
central concern is with the intersection between class, caste,
gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most
contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured
as the 'structuration' of castes has declined. The wider
theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under
which the so-called 'working class' has any realistic prospect of
unity.
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor
from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins
of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces
and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much
to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of
class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the
claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new 'commonsense' of
our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions
that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor
from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins
of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces
and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much
to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of
class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the
claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new 'commonsense' of
our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions
that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.
Between the 1830s and 1880s European problems had a profound impact
on British politics. Jonathan Parry examines the effect on the
British Liberal movement of the most significant of these, such as
the 1848 Revolutions, the unification of Italy, the Franco-Prussian
War and the Eastern Question, arguing that these European problems
made patriotism a major political question: governments were judged
by their success in promoting British interests abroad, but also by
the purity, potency and 'Englishness' of the political values they
represented. This volume makes a major contribution towards
understanding three important aspects of nineteenth-century British
history: British attitudes to Europe, contemporary notions of
national identity, and the nature and dynamic of British
Liberalism. Setting foreign and domestic policy discussions in a
patriotic framework, Parry offers an analysis of the ideas that
influenced the Liberal political coalition and the turning-points
affecting its vigour and unity as a political movement.
Between the 1830s and 1880s European problems had a profound impact
on British politics. Jonathan Parry examines the effect on the
British Liberal movement of the most significant of these, such as
the 1848 Revolutions, the unification of Italy, the Franco-Prussian
War, and the Eastern Question, arguing that these European problems
made patriotism a major political question: governments were judged
by their success in promoting British interests abroad, but also by
the purity, potency and 'Englishness' of the political values they
represented. This volume makes a major contribution towards
understanding three important aspects of nineteenth-century British
history: British attitudes to Europe, contemporary notions of
national identity, and the nature and dynamic of British
Liberalism. Setting foreign and domestic policy discussions in a
patriotic framework, Parry offers a new analysis of the ideas that
influenced the Liberal political coalition and the turning-points
affecting its vigour and unity as a political movement.
This book presents the first modern overview of Liberal government
during the period when the Liberals dominated British politics.
Parry argues that Liberalism was a much more coherent force than
has been generally recognised, and goes on to reinterpret the
pattern of nineteenth-century political development. The Liberal
tradition attached great importance to 'parliamentary government'
as the means of reconciling the nation to the exercise of
government power, and Parry concentrates on parliamentary politics,
seeing it as the best way to understand the Liberals' coherence and
success. After a review of the origins of Liberalism before 1830,
the book examines in turn the strategies of successive Liberal
leaders from Grey to Gladstone and Hartington. Nineteenth-century
Liberalism was concerned to maintain the rule of a propertied but
socially diverse, rational and civilised elite, in the belief that
this was the best means to administer the state economically and
equitably, and to promote an industrious and virtuous citizenship.
Because of the widespread popularity of the economic, foreign and
religious policies followed to this end, and because of the
flexible, sometimes cynical, presentational skills of Liberal
leaders, the Liberals became the most popular party for much of the
century. After 1867 however, argues Parry, Gladstone's crusading
politics outweighed the gains achieved by the organisational
mobilisation of grass-roots groups and led directly to the break up
of the party in 1886. This book therefore not only presents a clear
and original introduction to nineteenth-century Liberal politics,
but also explores the theory, practice and consequences of Liberal
approaches to theconstitution and to religious, moral and social
policy.
This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically
represented in a range of different cultures, from South and
South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned
with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as
against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on
many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which
corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces
differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the
instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the
proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world
view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views
and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing
money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we
shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole.
One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two
separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems
making some ideological space for relatively impersonal,
competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that
even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist
within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore
misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast
within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby
reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform
the nature of social relationships.
This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation, and exchange.
Why do funerary rituals in India, China, Latin America, and Africa so often involve symbols of rebirth and regeneration and prominent roles for women? Specialists in these lands have collaborated to offer an innovative response that anthropologists, theologians, psychologists, sociologists, and historians will find challenging.
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