Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh

by Lamia Karim

FINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESON PRIZE FROM THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Dispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry

Castoffs of Capital 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517913357
• ISBN13: 9781517913359
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"