Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Daniela Ana (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-317-7 (ISBN)

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Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines. Drawing on theories of globalization, economic anthropology and political economy, the book contributes to understanding how crises and inequalities in capitalism lead to the ‘creative destruction’ of local products, their accelerated standardization and the increased exploitation of labour.

Daniela Ana is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) in Germany. Her research interests include human-environment relations, soil knowledge and soil care practices, labour studies and migration.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Making of an Export Industry: Moldovan Winemaking during Different Socio-Political Systems

Chapter 2. The Value of Homemade Wine: Debates on Heritage

Chapter 3. Labour Force Reproduction: Economic Strategies in a Post-Soviet Winemaking Village

Chapter 4. Sending Wine Around the World: Globalization and Work Rhythms in the Bottling Section

Chapter 5. Nature, Value and Globalized Markets: Articulating the Purcari Terroir

Conclusion: Wine on the Periphery as an Illustration of the Transnational Dynamics of Value Creation

Glossary of Terms

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-80539-317-0 / 1805393170
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-317-7 / 9781805393177
Zustand	Neuware