Producing culture and capital : family firms in Italy

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Producing culture and capital : family firms in Italy

Sylvia Junko Yanagisako

Princeton University Press, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-215) and index

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Drawing on ethnographic and archival research on 38 firms in northern Italy's silk industry, Sylvia Yanagisako illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. She shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification and the reproduction and division of firms. In doing so, Yanagisako addresses two gaps in Marx's and Weber's theories of capitalism: the absence of an adequate cultural theory of capitalist motivation and the absence of attention to kinship and gender. By demonstrating that kinship and gender are crucial in structuring capitalist action, this study reveals these two gaps to be different facets of the same omission. A process-oriented approach to class formation and class subjectivity enables the author to incorporate the material and ideological struggles within families into an analysis of class-making and self-making. Yanagisako concludes that both "provincial" and "global" capitalist orientations and strategies operate in an industry that has always been integrated into regional and

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List of Figures and Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Chapter One: PRODUCING CULTURE AND CAPITAL 1 Chapter Two: THE GENERATION OF FIRMS 35 Chapter Three: PATRIARCHAL DESIRE 70 Chapter Four: BETRAYAL AS A FORCE OF PRODUCTION 110 Chapter Five: CAPITAL AND GENDERED SENTIMENTS 145 Chapter Six: CONCLUSION 174 Notes 191 References 205 Index 217

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