Moral Economy at Work

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann has been a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and teaches anthropology at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is the co-editor of Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area (LIT Publishers, 2007) and author of The Return of Private Property: Rural Life after Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan (LIT Publishers, 2010).

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Introduction: Moral Economy at Work

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann



Chapter 1. Freedom and Control: Analysing the Values of Niche Business Owners in Aarhus, Denmark

Anne-Erita G. Berta



Chapter 2. The ‘Good’ Employer: Mutual Expectations amidst Changing Employment Situations in Pathein, Myanmar

Laura Hornig



Chapter 3. Moral Economy and Mutuality at Work: Labour Practices in Tobacco Shops

Luca Szücs



Chapter 4. Tenacious Ties: The Embedded Trajectory of Small-Scale Enterprises in Provincial India

Sudeshna Chaki



Chapter 5. The Morality of Relatedness in Medium-Sized Businesses in Central Anatolia

Ceren Deniz



Chapter 6. Post-Soviet Garment Manufacturing in the Era of Global Competition: Between Precarity, Creative Work and Developmental Hopes

Daria Tereshina



Chapter 7. FIAT Automobiles Serbia: The Split Moral Economy of Public-Private Partnerships

Ivan Rajković



Chapter 8. Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in Bulgaria

Detelina Tocheva



Afterword: Moral Economy in Context

James G. Carrier



Index