Resource Mobilization: From Voluntarism to Coercion

Kenneth Hirth; Marcella Frangipane; Glenn Storey; Anna Prentiss

Resource Mobilization: From Voluntarism to Coercion

Kenneth Hirth
, Marcella Frangipane
, Glenn Storey
, Anna Prentiss

Anthropology

Pennsylvania State University
University of Rome La Sapienza
University of Iowa

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Abstract

All societies mobilize resources for different purposes. The product of human labor, these goods and services become especially important in the formation and support of multi-scalar organizations that include communities, regional polities, and beyond. The labor and its resources must be mobilized to finance these organizations as they are developed and maintained across time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Premodern Economies
Subtitle of host publication	A Global Perspective
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	6
Pages	128-152
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	9781009677219
State	Published - Jan 2026

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