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Thiefing a Chance : Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad /

"When an IMF-backed program of liberalization opened Trinidad's borders to foreign ready-made apparel, global competition damaged the local industry and unraveled worker entitlements and expectations but also presented new economic opportunities for engaging the "global" market....

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Prentice, Rebecca
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • List of illustrations
  • Map of trinidad
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Being a factory the signature way
  • Raced and emplaced : the signature fashions workers
  • "Is we own factory" : thiefing a chance on the shop floor
  • "Keeping up with style" : the struggle for skill
  • "Use a next hand" : risk, injury the body at work
  • "Kidnapping go build back we economy" : criminal tropes in neoliberal capitalism
  • Conclusions: work, risk and love
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography.