| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 162 pages) : illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover; Death of an Industry; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Table; Abbreviations; Key Names; Acknowledgements; 1. Situating the Idea: Industry, Society and Development; Industry and development; Industry and society; A note on research, methodology and chapterization; Endnotes; 2. Nepal and Garments; Nepal; Garments; Situating Nepal within the regional and global discourses on garments; From shop floor ethnography to an ecology of work; Endnotes; 3. A Garment Industry Ecosystem; The readymade garment cluster in Nepal; The spatiality of factories and markets |
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The spatiality of textile and fabricThe spatiality of accessories; The spatiality of business networking: Garment Association of Nepal (GAN); Endnotes; 4. The Normality of Garment Making; Classroom learners and scientific mass manufacturing; The craftsmen and their ethnicities; The semiotics in garment making: being versus doing; From culture to market; Endnotes; 5. The MFA Expiry: A Garment Tsunami; Death in the factory: dasha; Garment 'going air': management reform as the last hope; 'It's the unions who shut down the factory'; Ethnicity and craft in the time of crisis |
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Weathering the storms of capitalismEndnotes; 6. Workers and Unions: Ethnicity and Class; Elite ideas about garment workers; Labour ethnography of the garment shop floor; Three phases of a Union movement; Early activism: a Union for workers; An interlude of Maoist politics; Collapse of the industry and the Union of workers; Class, culture, union; Endnotes; 7. Reconstituting the Garment Afterlife; Work and lif; Life beyond work; Rule; Synthesizing development with politics and culture; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book is about the death of the garment industry in Nepal and the Maoist-led labour uprising that followed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-156) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Clothing trade -- Nepal -- History
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Clothing trade -- Political aspects -- Nepal
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Clothing trade
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| SUBJECT |
Nepal -- History -- Civil War, 1996-2006.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001083
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| Subject |
Nepal
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108579803 |
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1108579809 |
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9781108123310 |
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1108123317 |
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