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Book Review: Nila Ginger Hofman: Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland. The Practice of Labor and Consumption

In this book, anthropologist, Nila Ginger Hofman focuses on the socio-cultural forces that mediate women's participation in the labour (both paid and unpaid) and capitalist consumer markets. She does this by examining their everyday lives i.e., their experiences at work and with shopping. Hofman also explores the particular meanings and memories embedded in women's experience of the past. She examines how women remembered the socialist era and how they now participate and negotiate the capitalist present focusing on the spheres of earning and spending. She concludes that participants' narratives demonstrate that 'their day-to-day experiences exist somewhere between the cultivation of capitalist values and the legacies of self- -managing socialism'

women ; labour ; capitalist consumer markets ; Croatia

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