After the Worker State: Competing and Converging Frames of Valuing Labor in Rural Kyrgyzstan
After the Worker State: Competing and Converging Frames of Valuing Labor in Rural Kyrgyzstan
Author(s): Jeanne Feaux de la CroixSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)
Keywords: Anthropology of Work; Employment; Slavery; Entrepreneurship; Pastoralism; Central Asia; Socialist Labor; Postsocialism
Summary/Abstract: This article examines competing and converging discourses on the value of labor in rural Kyrgyzstan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2010, the author uses case studies of a woman pastoralist, an agricultural entrepreneur, and a Muslim cleric to demonstrate the competing frames of valuation that current work practices are oriented towards.
Journal: Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований
- Issue Year: 6/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 77-100
- Page Count: 24