How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompassesboth productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary dynamics such as domination and resistance. This volume addresses growing interests in linking past and present power relationships engendered by capitalism and in conducting historical archaeology as anthropology. The Plurality of Power: Industrial Capitalism and the Nineteenth-Century Company Town of Fayette, Michigan, explores the subtle distribution of power within American industrial capitalism through a case study of a company town. Issues surrounding power and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of power. In the firstcategory, the company imposed a system of structural, class-based power that is most visible in hierarchical differences in pay and housing, as well as consumer behavior. A second category addresses disciplinary activities surrounding health and the human body, as observed in the built environment, medical artifacts, disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence of intestinal parasites, and unequal access to healthcare. The third ensemble of power relations isheterarcical and entwined with non-economic capital (social, symbolic, and cultural). Individuals and groups drew upon different forms of capital to bolster social status and express identity both within and apart from the corporate hierarchy. The goal in combining these diverse ideas is to explore the plurality of power relationships in past industrial contexts and to assert their relevance in the anthropology of capitalism. . focusing on the social and power relations on an industrial town includes landscape as well as health-related research from the site which further demostrate the social, capitalistic and power relations in this community makes useof GIS technology, which is becoming more prominently used in archaeological work. INDICE: CHAPTER 1. THE PLURALITY OF POWER IN INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM: A CASESTUDY OF FAYETTE, MICHIGAN. CHAPTER 2. WORKING COMMUNITIES AND THE VICTORIAN-AMERICAN COMPANY TOWN. CHAPTER 3. CRITICALLY READING POWER, LANDSCAPES, DOCUMENTS, AND ARTIFACTS IN INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY. CHAPTER 4. PATERNALISM, RESISTANCE, AND HEGEMONY. CHAPTER 5. THE CLASS SYSTEm. CHAPTER 6. BIO-POWER: DISCIPLINE, SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE, AND THE PRIVILEGE OF HYGIENE. CHAPTER 7. SOCIAL STATUS AND INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, GENDER, AND IMMIGRATION. CHAPTER 8 SYMBOLIC, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL CAPITAL. CHAPTER 9. CONCLUSION: POWER ANDINDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, PAST AND PRESENT.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-8305-3
- Editorial: Springer New York
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 209
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés