{"product_id":"castoffs-of-capital-work-and-love-among-garment-workers-in-bangladesh-paperback-softback-9781517913366","title":"Castoffs of Capital; Work and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517913366","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWork and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLamia Karim (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517913366\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 26 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, \u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world.\"-Leela Fernandes, author of \u003ci\u003eGoverning Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e FINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESON PRIZE FROM THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh, anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses attention onto the lives of older women aged out of factory work, heretofore largely ignored, thereby introducing a new dimension to the understanding of a female-headed workforce that today numbers around four million in Bangladesh. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bringing a feminist labor studies lens, \u003ci\u003eCastoffs of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eforegrounds these women not only as workers but as mothers, wives, sisters, lovers, friends, and political agents. Focusing on relations among work, gender, and global capital’s targeting of poor women to advance its market penetration, Karim shows how women navigate these spaces by adopting new subject formations. She locates these women’s aspirations for the “good life” not only in material comforts but also in their longings for love and sexual fulfillment that help them momentarily forget the precarity of their existence under the shadow of capital. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Through richly detailed ethnographic studies, this innovative and beautifully written book examines the making and unmaking of these women’s wants and desires, loves and tribulations, hopes and despairs, and triumphs and struggles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702497014040,"sku":"9781517913366","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/castoffs-of-capital-work-and-love-among-garment-workers-in-bangladesh-paperback-softback-9781517913366","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}