Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Capitalist development and cultural experience
  • Spirits and discipline in capitalist transformation
  • Malay peasants from subsistence to commodity production
  • Part 2: The Kampung society of coastal Selangor
  • Tropical confluences: rural society, capital, and the state
  • Sungai Jawa: differentiation and dispersal
  • Domestic relations: the reconfiguration of family life
  • Marriage strategies: negotiating the future
  • Part 3: Neophyte factory women in late capitalism
  • The modern corporation: manufacturing gender hierarchy
  • Neophyte factory women and the negative image
  • Spirits of resistance.