Everyday life of ready-made garment kormi in Bangladesh : an ethnography of neoliberalism / / Mohammad Tareq Hasan

• Autore: Hasan Mohammad Tareq
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.481687095492
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Social conditions
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Everyday Life of Ready-made Garment Kormi in Bangladesh -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Contextualizing Ready-Made Garment Work in Bangladesh -- The Garment Kormi: Who, Why, and How? -- The Contradictions and Gaps -- Inequality, Difference, and the Garment Kormi -- Garment Kormi and the Parameters of Analysis -- Situating 'Everyday Life' -- Everyday Life and Capitalism -- Everyday Life and Work -- Everyday Life and Neoliberalism -- Field Locations -- Methodology: Access to the Factory and Initial Encounters -- Propositions -- Chapter Overview -- References -- Part II -- Chapter 2: The Roots of Local Capitalism: Outlining and Understanding Global Connections -- Introduction -- Understanding Capitalism in Bangladesh: An Outline of the Connections -- The Mughals and the Extraction of Wealth from the Villages -- The British and the Drain of Wealth from the Colony -- Land Distribution in the Postcolonial Era, Structural Adjustments, and Pauperization -- Development of the Garment Industry and the Continuation of the Process of Accumulation -- Global Capital and the State: Emerging Inequalities -- Global Policies and Uneven Market Relations -- Structural Power and Bangladesh's Transition Toward Industrial Capitalism -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Tensions and Negotiations in Neoliberalism: Emergence of Garment Kormi as the Model Citizens -- Introduction -- Rebuilding the Sonar Bangla Through Modeling Its Citizens -- The Woman Question and the Financialization of Social Life -- Woman as (Industrial) Garment Kormi: From Burden to Prospects -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part III -- Chapter 4: Becoming Garment Kormi: Life in the Garment Factory -- Introduction. ; Becoming Garment Kormi: A Way Out of Economic Crisis and More -- 'At Least We Do Not Have to Worry About Our Next Meal' -- 'The Return One Receives from Garments Is Better than Agriculture' -- 'I Can Make Changes in My Life Because of My Earnings in Garment Work' -- 'The Hard Work Is Worthwhile' -- 'It Is Good but not Good Enough' -- Garment Kormi: Contextualizing Industrial Lives -- The Recruitment Process: The Long Wait -- The Inclusive Excluded Space -- During the Lunch Breaks -- The Silent Power of the 'Seniors' -- The Structure Inside the Factory -- Operators and Supervisors -- Workers' Disagreements with Management About Salaries -- Contested Authority in the Work Process -- Work and Time -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: Kinship in the Factory: Garment Kormi Living a Life Away from Home -- Introduction -- Garment Kormi and Aspects of Relatedness: The Ideological World -- Getting a Job and Navigating the Factory Regime -- Disciplinary Power and Kinship Ideology in the Work Process -- Hierarchy of Values -- Workers in the Factory: Uncertainty, Hope, and Collective Resistance -- (Religious) Ideologies and the Paradoxes of Collective Action -- Kinship Relationality: Dependency in Autonomy -- Kinship Without 'Fixed Faces': Flexibility in Relatedness -- Authority, Power, and the Paradoxes of Relatedness in the Factory -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 6: Negotiating the Public and the Private: Garment Kormi Becoming Joggo -- Introduction -- Socio-economic Effects of 'Modern Industry Work' -- Roles and Responsibilities at Home -- The Earner Versus the Manager of Finances -- Marriage by One's Own Choice -- Overcoming Stigma -- Life as Garment Kormi -- Work as Responsibility: For Family and Factory -- Ideas About Money: Expanding Necessities -- Ideas About Consumer Items -- Value of Work as Freedom and Becoming Joggo. ; Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Dare to Dream: Remaking Everyday Realities -- Introduction -- Worth, Uncertainty, and Futures -- The Family: Responsibility and Desire -- Life on Workdays and Weekends -- The Payday -- Shopping for Loved Ones and the Plan for a 'Happy' Day -- Today's Hard Work Will Remake the Future -- Distant Future Scenarios -- The Capacity of Aspirations for the Future -- Ideological Totalization and Alternative Collective Sociality -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part IV -- Chapter 8: Paradoxes of Factory Compliance: Auditing, CSR, and 'New' Dispossession -- Introduction -- Agenda for a Fairer Future: Previsioning Instruments -- Auditing in RMG Factories: Performative Rituals and 'New' Dispossession -- Compliance Practices: A Safeguard for Bideshis -- Paradoxes of CSR: Labor Control to Corporate Branding -- The Influence of Buying Practices: Punctuated Times -- The Making of Workers into Legal Subjects -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part V -- Chapter 9: The Multiple Realities of Neoliberalism and Garment Kormi -- The Overarching Context -- Employment and the Multiple Realities of Garment Kormi -- Conclusions: Women, the State, and Neoliberalism(s) in Bangladesh -- References -- Chapter 10: Epilogue: During the Pandemic -- Garment Kormi and Coronavirus: Events of Abandonment -- Global Brands Must Do Their Part -- A Big Appears While Many Smalls Disappear -- Whose Sustainability Is It Anyway? -- Work Comes at a Price -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Everyday Life of Ready-Made Garment Kormi in Bangladesh
• ISBN: 9783030999025; 9783030999018
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910584476903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference