Author: Ong, Aihwa
Title: Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1987). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xvi, 268 pp. Textual photos & tables.. Binding corners bumped. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Capitalist Development & Cultural Experience: Spirits & Discipline in Capitalist Transformation; Malay Peasants from Subsistence to Commodity Production; The Kampung Society of Coastal Selangor: Tropical Confluences: Rural Society, Capital & the State; Sungai Jawa: Differentiation & Dispersal; Domestic Relations: The Reconfiguration of Family Life; Marriage Strategies: Negotiating the Future; Neophyte Factory Women in Late Capitalism: The Modern Corporation: Manufacturing Gender Hierarchy; Neophyte Factory Women & the Negative Image; Spirits of Resistance; Conclusion.

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Malaysia Economy, Southeast Asia, Political Economics, Development Economy, Women Gender, Factory Workers, Social History, Sociology Labour