Glimpses of Hope : : The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal / / Michael Hoffmann.
Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in areas such as modern food-processing, water-bot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dislocations ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES ON THE TEXT
- Map of Nepal
- Introduction. The Noodle King
- PART I. Work at the Margins of Nepalgunj
- Chapter 1 From Casual to Permanent Work in a Food Factory
- Chapter 2 From Bonded to Industrial Labor in a Food Factory
- Chapter 3 New Forms of Spirituality in a Food Factory
- PART II. Work at the Margins of Pokhara
- Chapter 4 Work, Precarity, and Militant Unionism in an Industrial Area
- Chapter 5 Gendered Divisions of Work in the Water-Bottling Plants
- Chapter 6 Class, Ethnicity, and Labor Mobilization in the Construction Industry
- Chapter 7 Mafia, Labor, and Shamanism in a Sand Mine
- Conclusion Glimpses of Hope
- GLOSSARY
- REFERENCES
- INDEX