Made In Egypt : : Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor / / Leila Zaki Chakravarti.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities of th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, Maps and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • The Nile Delta
  • Chapter 1 The factory as crucible
  • Chapter 2 Firm as family – control and resistance
  • Chapter 3 Shop floor as marketplace – love and consumption
  • Chapter 4 Daughters of the factory – discipline and nurture
  • Chapter 5 Globalised takeover – performance and resistance
  • Chapter 6 Domination and resistance
  • Appendix: The Fashion Express workforce
  • Select Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index