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Producing Culture and Capital : Family Firms in Italy / Sylvia Junko Yanagisako.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 1 map. 5 line illusContent type:
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  • 9780691214221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/767739094523 23
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  • HD9915.I83 Y36 2002eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. PRODUCING CULTURE AND CAPITAL -- Chapter Two. THE GENERATION OF FIRMS -- Chapter Three. PATRIARCHAL DESIRE -- Chapter Four. BETRAYAL AS A FORCE OF PRODUCTION -- Chapter Five. CAPITAL AND GENDERED SENTIMENTS -- Chapter Six. CONCLUSION -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: 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 theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. PRODUCING CULTURE AND CAPITAL -- Chapter Two. THE GENERATION OF FIRMS -- Chapter Three. PATRIARCHAL DESIRE -- Chapter Four. BETRAYAL AS A FORCE OF PRODUCTION -- Chapter Five. CAPITAL AND GENDERED SENTIMENTS -- Chapter Six. CONCLUSION -- Notes -- References -- Index

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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 theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and international relations of production and distribution. Her approach to culture and capitalism as mutually constituted processes offers an alternative to both universal models of capitalism as a mode of production and essentialist models of distinctive "cultures of capitalism."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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