Along the Integral Margin : : Uneven Development in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement / / Stephen Campbell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Campbell, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; 21 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION Modernity’s Integral Margins --; 1 A DEEPER HISTORY OF MYANMAR’S POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION --; 2 FROM RURAL DISPOSSESSION TO PRECARIOUS URBANIZATION --; 3 SQUATTING AMID CAPITALISM AND THE CONTRADICTIONS THEREOF --; 4 DEBT COLLECTION AS LABOR DISCIPLINE --; 5 THE INTEGRAL INFORMALITY OF MARGINALIZED WORKERS --; 6 UNFREEDOMS OF CAPITALISM --; 7 SQUATTER SELF-ORGANIZATION AND COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE --; CONCLUSION The Margins at the Heart of Modernity --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501764905; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501764905
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen Campbell.

In recent years anthropologists have focused on informal, unfree, and other nonnormative labor arrangements and labeled them as "non-capitalist." In Along the Integral Margin, Stephen Campbell pushes back against this idea and shows that these labor arrangements are, in fact, important aspects of capitalist development and that the erroneous "non-capitalist" label contributes to obscuring current capitalist relations.Through powerful, intimate ethnographic narratives of the lives and struggles of residents of a squatter settlement in Myanmar, Campbell challenges narrow conceptions of capitalism and asserts that nonnormative labor is not marginal, but rather centrally important to Myanmar's economic development. Campbell's narrative approach brings individuals who are often marginalized in accounts of contemporary Myanmar to the forefront and raises questions about the diversity of work in capitalism.