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“Still good life”: On the value of reuse and distributive labor in “depleted” rural Maine
Economic Anthropology ( IF 1.236 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 , DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12176
Cindy Isenhour 1 , Brieanne Berry 2
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This article explores the production of wealth through distributive labor in Maine's secondhand economy. While reuse is often associated with economic disadvantage, our research complicates that perspective. The labor required to reclaim, repair, redistribute, and reuse secondhand goods provides much more than a means of living in places left behind by international capitalism, but the value generated by this work is persistently discounted by dominant economic logics. On the basis of semistructured interviews, participant observation, and statewide surveys with reuse market participants in Maine, we find that the relational value of reuse, produced through caring, flexible, distributive labor, is especially significant. We argue that paying attention to the practices, politics, and value of distribution is critical for understanding wealth in communities perceived to have been left behind by global capitalist systems, particularly as wage labor opportunities and natural resources grow increasingly scarce.

中文翻译:

“保持美好生活”:论缅因州贫瘠农村的再利用和分配劳动的价值

本文探讨了缅因州二手经济中通过分配劳动创造的财富。尽管重复使用通常与经济劣势有关,但我们的研究使这一观点变得复杂。回收,修理,重新分配和再利用二手货物所需的劳动力提供的不仅仅是在国际资本主义留下的地方生活的手段,但这项工作所产生的价值始终被占主导地位的经济逻辑所低估。在缅因州的半结构化访谈,参与者观察以及对再利用市场参与者进行的全州调查的基础上,我们发现通过关心,灵活,分配性劳动而产生的再利用的相关价值尤其重要。我们认为,注意实践,政治,
更新日期:2020-04-27
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