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Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes Indonesia
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Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes Indonesia
Current price: $34.95
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Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes Indonesia
Current price: $34.95
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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,
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.