{"product_id":"9781517913366","title":"Castoffs of Capital","description":"Author: Lamia Karim\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781517913366\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e FINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESONPRIZE 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\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\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","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830019772574,"sku":"ADS-9781517913366","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781517913366.jpg?v=1778558155","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781517913366","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}