Kretek Capitalism

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At once illuminating and disconcerting, Kretek Capitalism offers an important critique of how governments and corporations still collude with one another to profit from the recognizable harm of cigarette smoking. Thoughtful and provocative, it is a superb book that will be widely read, especially by those who are looking for an antidote to current popular support of kretek."—Abidin Kusno, author of Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions "Tacking elegantly across complex economic, semiotic, and social spaces, Marina Welker argues that ubiquitous Indonesian representations of kretek as an authentic, small-scale industry in fact rest on a toxic addiction that is as cultural as it is chemical and as global as it is patriotic—a brilliant, beautiful, and disturbing book."—Carla Jones, Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder "Detailed, attentive, and careful,  Kretek Capitalism is easily the most granular, informative, and textured ethnography of labor in the tobacco industry."—Peter Benson, author of Tobacco Capitalism and Stuck Moving