Dorinne Kondo, a Harvard-trained Japanese-American anthropologist, spent nearly two years in Japan working part-time in a small candy factory in the Shitamachi area of ​​Tokyo. His anthropological works suggest that identity is multiple and relational. Throughout the book he stated that selves are created in work processes and sometimes the process is complex and ambiguous as it involves all staff. Political and social contexts. Kondo analyzes the maintenance, negotiation and creation of identities in an artisanal sweets factory among its part-time workers and to do so has examined the historical and other contextual forces that may shape their discourse. This book is divided into three parts. In the first part Kondo discussed the settings. In the first part Kondo recounts, in sometimes interminable detail, various facts about the flexible use of pronouns in Japanese, as well as about the Yamanote/Shitamachi division in central Tokyo and how this affects identity construction. There was a very open class difference between the Shitamachi (of artisans and manual workers) and Yamanote (elite) areas; the same concept of elite and subaltern classes distinguished on the basis of more/less money, high/low salary, better/poor housing, etc. and how they were related to the size of the company. People who worked in larger companies were considered elite and with labels while people who worked in small businesses were considered less elite. She also mentioned her identity dilemma as a Japanese-American. She examines her own position in the field and how that may have changed people's perceptions of her. This is an account where she wants to maintain their tradition and at the same time accept the capitalist environment (they do not eat together, young artisans get their own accommodation, free and different westernized events such as potato digging, radish digging are introduced and hiking). Kondo did not spend much time examining how the capitalist economy may have changed the social structure in Japan and how this may have affected the sense of identity in the workplace. Kondo's discovery addresses power relations in general. It supports a complex vision of human power and agency. This requires seeing individuals as decentralized and multiple selves, whose lives are riddled with contradictions and creative tensions. People can rearrange power relations with the appropriate amount of time, but they can never escape the place beyond power. He argues that the matrices of power and meaning are always open.