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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Made In Egypt
:
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations, Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
The Nile Delta
Chapter 1 The factory as crucible
Chapter 2 Firm as family – control and resistance
Chapter 3 Shop floor as marketplace – love and consumption
Chapter 4 Daughters of the factory – discipline and nurture
Chapter 5 Globalised takeover – performance and resistance
Chapter 6 Domination and resistance
Appendix: The Fashion Express workforce
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Description:
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labour force. Constructions of power and resistance, as well as individual aspirations and identities, are explored through articulations of class, gender and religion in both management discourses and shop floor practices. Leila Chakravarti’s compelling study also moves beyond the confines of the factory, examining the interplay with the wider world around it