Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work) by Aihwa Ong

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work)

Aihwa Ong

286 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why are Malay women workers periodically seized by spirit possession on the shopfloors of modern factories? In this book, Aihwa Ong captures the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences in the lives of Malay women and their families as they make t...

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