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Glimpses of Hope: The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

By Michael Hoffmann

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781800738119
DOI
10.1515/9781800738119
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
866 kB (886352 bytes)
Series
Dislocations; 32
Pages
218\202
Time added
2023-08-15 04:06:49

Description

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-bottling, housebuilding, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity. Although global labor relations have been mostly in decline for decades, this ethnography offers insights and glimpses of hope in terms of labor dynamics and the opportunities various jobs may afford.

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