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Author Hasan, Mohammad Tareq, author

Title Everyday life of ready-made garment kormi in Bangladesh : an ethnography of neoliberalism / Mohammad Tareq Hasan
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Approaches to social inequality and difference
Approaches to social inequality and difference.
Contents Part I -- 1. Contextualizing Ready-Made Garment Work in Bangladesh -- Part II -- 2. The Roots of Local Capitalism: Outlining and Understanding Global Connections -- 3. Tensions and Negotiations in Neoliberalism: Emergence of Garment Kormi as the Model Citizens -- Part III -- 4. Becoming Garment Kormi: Life in the Garment Factory -- 5. Kinship in the Factory: Garment Kormi Living a Life Away from Home -- 6. Negotiating the Public and the Private: Garment Kormi Becoming Joggo -- 7. Dare to Dream: Remaking Everyday Realities -- Part IV -- 8. Paradoxes of Factory Compliance: Auditing, CSR, and New Dispossession -- Part V -- 9. The Multiple Realities of Neoliberalism and Garment Kormi -- 10. Epilogue: During the Pandemic -- Index
Summary This book portrays the scene where corporate international trade agreements, a new neoliberal state regime, and a growing textile market have contributed to the becoming of a new class of Muslim female workerswho labor in Bangladeshs apparel export factories under conditions of neoliberal capitalism. The garment kormioften abstracted by the homogenizing category of the "garment worker" remain lost in the statistics of development and empowerment or contrarily exploitation. Thereby, focusing on the everyday lives of garment kormi, i.e., workers stories than on the collective of garment workers as a category, this book at one front highlights the neoliberal structures of difference and inequality, and on the other reflects on the potential of egalitarianism and change in terms of novel ways of comprising and expressing life-worlds. It shows that the values in life and the structures that govern life, such as contemporary Bangladeshs neoliberal order, kinship relationality, and religiosity, are co-constitutive, multi-layered, and always on the move, never fixed. Mohammad Tareq Hasan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Notes Includes index
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Subject Women clothing workers -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions
Muslim women -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions
Clothing workers -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions
Neoliberalism -- Bangladesh
Muslim women -- Social conditions
Neoliberalism
Women clothing workers -- Social conditions
Bangladesh
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030999025
3030999025