Anthropology › Section G · Economic anthropology › Topic G.7
Industrialism and postmodernity
Factories, wage labour and fossil fuels changed how people work, where they live and what they buy, and they pulled every other way of making a living into one global system. Anthropologists study that transformation from the shop floor, the plantation and the gig worker's phone.
In this topic
- A new mode of subsistence
- From fields to factories
- Sugar, slavery and industry
- Colonialism and its legacy
- Many modernities
- Worked example: spirits on the factory floor
- Commodity fetishism
- Postindustrialism and postmodernity
- Worked example: reading employment shifts
- Precarity and the environment
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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