Kretek Capitalism : Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia / Marina Welker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welker, Marina, Author.

Series:

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Indonesia.

Capitalism.

Cigarette industry--Indonesia.

Cigarette industry.

Clove (Spice)--Indonesia.

Clove (Spice).

Labor--Indonesia.

Labor.

Tobacco use--Indonesia.

Tobacco use.

Tobacco workers--Indonesia.

Tobacco workers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 percent of the market. Each year, more than 250,000 Indonesians die of tobacco-related diseases. To account for the staggering success of this lethal industry, Kretek Capitalism examines how kretek manufacturers have adopted global tobacco technologies and enlisted Indonesians to labor on their behalf in fields and factories, at retail outlets and social gatherings, and online. The book charts how Sampoerna, a Philip Morris subsidiary, uses contracts, competitions, and gender, age, and class hierarchies to extract labor from workers, influencers, artists, students, retailers, and consumers. Critically engaging nationalist claims about the commodity's cultural heritage and the jobs it supports, Marina Welker shows how global capitalism has transformed both kretek and the labor required to make and promote it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Kretek Agriculture: Hierarchy and Subjugation

2 Hand-Rolling Kretek: Class and Gender Paternalism

3 Machine-Rolling Kretek: Gamification and Individualization

4 Branding Kretek: Influence and Creativity in the Gig Economy

5 Selling Kretek: Co-opting Independent Retail

6 Smoking Kretek: Industry Victims and Commodity Patriots

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

ISBN:

9780520399686

0520399684

OCLC:

1412503715