{"product_id":"global-maya-work-and-ideology-in-rural-guatemala-paperback","title":"Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLiliana R. Goldín\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala's changing economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems, she examines how people make a living and how they think about their options, practices, and constraints. Drawing on interviews and surveys--even retellings of traditional narratives--she reveals how contemporary Maya respond to the increasingly globalized yet locally circumscribed conditions in which they work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoldín presents four case studies: cottage industries devoted to garment production, vegetable growing for internal and border markets reached through direct commerce, crops grown for export, and wage labor in garment assembly factories. By comparing generational and gendered differences among workers, she reveals not only complexities of change but also how these complexities arereflected in changing attitudes, understandings, and aspirations that characterize people's economic ideology. Further, she shows that as rural people take on diverse economic activities, they also reinterpret their views on such matters as accumulation, cooperation, competition, division of labor, and community solidarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Maya\u003c\/i\u003e explores global processes in local terms, revealing the interplay of traditional values, household economics, and the inescapable conditions of demographic growth, a shrinking land base, and a global economy always looking for cheap labor. It offers a wealth of new insights not only for Maya scholars but also for anyone concerned with the effects of globalization on the Third World.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work to learn about Guatemala's changing economy. Case studies focus on workers in small-scale garment production, vegetable farming for local markets, agriculture grown for export, and garment assembly factories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiliana R. Goldín is a professor of anthropology at Florida International University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eProcesos globales en el campo de Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eIdentities on the Move: Transnational Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960238960947,"sku":"9780816529872","price":55.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/c4eSVH15Z79780816529872.webp?v=1768481684","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/global-maya-work-and-ideology-in-rural-guatemala-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}