[Linganth] Michael Prentice's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today Mike Prentice's book comes out -- and CaMP anthropology blog has an
author interview with him to celebrate.

https://campanthropology.org

Please check it out,
Ilana

Press blurb:

What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In
*Supercorporate*, anthropologist Michael M. Prentice examines a central
tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's twenty-first
century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal
participation?

As South Korea distances itself from images and figures of a hierarchical
past, Prentice argues that the drive to redefine the meaning of corporate
labor echoes a central ambiguity around corporate labor today. Even as
corporations remain idealized sites of middle-class aspiration in South
Korea, employees are torn over whether they want greater recognition for
their work or meaningful forms of cooperation. Through an in-depth
ethnography of the Sangdo Group conglomerate, the book examines how
managers attempt to perfect corporate social life through new office
programs while also minimizing the risks of creating new hierarchies.
Ultimately, this book reveals how office life is a battleground for working
out the promises and the perils of economic democratization in one of East
Asia's most dynamic countries.
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