Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal

ISBN-13: 9781107191266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Mallika Shakya

Opis

This book is about the death of the garment industry in Nepal and the Maoist-led labour uprising that followed.

Recenzje

'While Schumpeter's notion of progress as creative destruction has captured the imagination, few scholars take the lessons of failure seriously, nor do they chronicle uncreative destruction. Not only has Mallika Shakya analysed the fall as well as the rise of what was an important industry, but also has mobilised over a decade of field enquiry to bring Nepal into the mainstream from its place on the exotic margins of development. She has justified convincingly her governing concept of the 'industrial ecosystem' into which she has niched the politics of artisanal and mass production, caste, ethnicity and gender, Maoist revolutionary politics on the shop floor, the Multi Fibre Agreement and US trade and aid policy, and much more. A stimulating and enjoyable read for all scholars of development.' Barbara Harriss White, University of Oxford

Spis treści

Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Key names; Acknowledgements; 1. Situating the idea: industry, society and development; 2. Nepal and garments; 3. A garment industry ecosystem; 4. The normality of garment making; 5. The MFA expiry: a garment tsunami; 6. Workers and unions: ethnicity and class; 7. Reconstituting the garment afterlife; Bibliography; Index.