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Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy
Sylvia Yanagisako
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Description for Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy
Paperback. Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 map. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JHM; JPFK; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's ... Read more
Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on thirty-eight firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
377 g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691095103
SKU
V9780691095103
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Ref
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About Sylvia Yanagisako
Sylvia Junko Yanagisako is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of "Transforming the Past" and coeditor of "Gender and Kinship" and "Naturalizing Power".
Reviews for Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy
"A welcome and refreshing addition to the existing literature."
Anna Centro Bull, Anthropological Quarterly "[An] engaging, provocative, and important book."
Victoria Goddard, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Anna Centro Bull, Anthropological Quarterly "[An] engaging, provocative, and important book."
Victoria Goddard, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute