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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia Paperback - 1987

by Aihwa Ong

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State University Of New York Press, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. This book is an analysis of how Malay women from a agricultural district of Selangor coped with the demands of working in a Japanese factory. The transition form village to a regimented system provoked many disruptions and conflicts, which are are not surprising as a result of the author's application of history, ethnography and quantitative analysis, which demonstrate the particular pressures faced by village women when they come up against corporate culture and capitalist discipline. Very Good Paperback. 268 pages with a bibliography and an index. Weight: 0.6 kg Post free within Malaysia The cover has a bit of rubbing around the extremities and a few scratches. The binding is tight and there is no tanning throughout.
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  • Title Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
  • Author Aihwa Ong
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University Of New York Press, Albany, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ML681
  • ISBN 9780887063817 / 0887063810
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1450
  • Library of Congress subjects Social change, Social change - Case studies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86022980
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.360

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