{"id":405,"date":"2025-10-02T03:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/holmstroem-mark\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:44:47","slug":"holmstroem-mark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/holmstroem-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmstroem Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Holmstr\u00f6m<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Holmstr\u00f6m Mark\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Mark Holmstr\u00f6m<\/b> is a social anthropologist who studies industrial societies. Most of his fieldwork was conducted in Indian cities, where he studied industrial workers\u2019 careers, labour in formal and informal sectors, small firms, flexible specialization, industrial districts and clusters. He has also written about worker co-ops and other forms of industrial democracy in Italy and Spain. Since retiring from the University of East Anglia, UK, in 1999, he has worked on small and medium enterprises and clusters in Spain (especially the toy industry), and intends to do more research in India. His books include <i>South Indian Factory Workers<\/i>; <i>Industry &#038; Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour<\/i>;<i> Industrial Democracy in Italy: Workers Co ops and the Self management Debate<\/i>, and <i>Spain\u2019s New Social Economy: Workers\u2019 Self management in Catalonia<\/i>. He co-edited and contributed to <i>Decentralized Production in India: Industrial Districts, Flexible Specialization, and Employment <\/i>(with Philippe Cad\u00e8ne).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-20\/p46-book-review-making-it-on-merit-nibett\/46193-2-eng-gb\/p46-book-review-making-it-on-merit-nibett_column.jpg\" alt=\"Making it on merit\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Making it on merit<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/holmstroem-mark\/\">Mark Holmstr\u00f6m<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 01, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tWhat is it like to grow up male and middle class in a city where everyone sees a career in information technology (IT) as the road to success? 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