Moral economy at work : ethnographic investigations in Eurasia / edited by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : moral economy at work / Lale Yalçın-Heckmann -- Freedom and control : analysing the values of niche business owners in Aarhus, Denmark / Anne-Erita G. Berta -- The 'good' employer : mutual expectations amidst changing employment situations in Pathein, Myanmar / Laura Hornig -- Moral economy and mutuality at work : labour practices in tobacco shops / Luca Szücs -- Tenacious ties : the embedded trajectory of small-scale enterprises in provincial India / Sudeshna Chaki -- The morality of relatedness in medium-sized businesses in central Anatolia / Ceren Deniz -- Post-Soviet garment manufacturing in the era of global competition : between precarity, creative work and developmental hopes / Daria Tereshina -- FIAT Automobiles Serbia : the split moral economy of public-private partnerships / Ivan Rajković -- Changing mutuality : building a house with unpaid labour in Bulgaria / Detelina Tocheva -- Afterword : moral economy in context / James G. Carrier.

"The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage"--

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