TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – This chapter asks what we should make of the gift exchanges that take place between workers and their managers on the floor of a massive offshore manufacturing unit in South India. Such exchanges appear anomalous in the ethnography of global manufacturing yet here they underpinned the organisation of hyper-intensive production processes.Findings – Following diverse acts of giving, this chapter shows how these transactions constituted the performative and relational grounds on which workers came to know themselves and sought to shape the world around them. In doing so it extends the anthropology of work and labour by showing that acts of giving are integral to global commodity production.
VL  - 32
SN  - 978-1-78190-059-8, 978-1-78190-058-1/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1108/S0190-1281(2012)0000032005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-1281(2012)0000032005
AU  - Cross Jamie
ED  - Ty Matejowsky
ED  - Donald C. Wood
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Sweatshop Exchanges: Gifts and Giving in the Global Factory
T2  - Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 3
EP  - 26
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -