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In recent years anthropologists have focused on informal, unfree, and other nonnormative labor arrangements and labeled them as noncapitalist. In Along the Integral Margin, Stephen Campbell pushes back against this idea and shows that these labor arrangements are, in fact, important aspects of capitalist development and that the erroneous noncapitalist label contributes to obscuring current capitalist relations.

Through powerful, intimate ethnographic narratives of the lives and struggles of residents of a squatter settlement in Myanmar, Campbell challenges narrow conceptions of capitalism and asserts that nonnormative labor is not marginal but rather centrally important to Myanmar''s economic development. Campbell''s narrative approach brings individuals who are often marginalized in accounts of contemporary Myanmar to the forefront and raises questions about the diversity of work in capitalism.



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This introductory lesson in historical economics goes beyond the simple linear approach, its purpose being to highlight, in modern times, a systemic contradiction between elites and workers, a truncated relationship that the author qualifies as " passive revolution".

Along the Integral Margin

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9781501764882
      978-1501764882
      ISBN-10 1501764888
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      Capitalism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In recent years anthropologists have focused on informal, unfree, and other nonnormative labor arrangements and labeled them as noncapitalist. In Along the Integral Margin, Stephen Campbell pushes back against this idea and shows that these labor arrangements are, in fact, important aspects of capitalist development and that the erroneous noncapitalist label contributes to obscuring current capitalist relations.

      Through powerful, intimate ethnographic narratives of the lives and struggles of residents of a squatter settlement in Myanmar, Campbell challenges narrow conceptions of capitalism and asserts that nonnormative labor is not marginal but rather centrally important to Myanmar''s economic development. Campbell''s narrative approach brings individuals who are often marginalized in accounts of contemporary Myanmar to the forefront and raises questions about the diversity of work in capitalism.



      Trade Review

      This introductory lesson in historical economics goes beyond the simple linear approach, its purpose being to highlight, in modern times, a systemic contradiction between elites and workers, a truncated relationship that the author qualifies as " passive revolution".

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