Leila Zaki Chakravarti

Made In Egypt (eBook, ePUB)

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785330780
• Artikelnr.: 45695434

Autorenporträt

Leila Zaki Chakravarti is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths (University of London) Dept of Anthropology. She has extensive fieldwork experience as a shop floor worker in an Egyptian garment assembly factory.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations, Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
Map of the Nile Delta
Chapter 1. The Factory as Crucible
      Port Said - The Nation's 'Dual Frontier'
      Space and Order: The Factory as Blueprint - and as Lived Experience
      Issues, Inspiration and Method
      Ordering and Animating the Ethnography
Chapter 2. Firm as Family - Control and Resistance
      Il-Kebir: The Role of the Proprietor-Patriarch
      Ikhlaas: Filial Loyalty and Sibling Rivalry
      Ihtiram: Performing Respectability
      Taraabut: Articulations of Community and Entitlement
      Entekhbo Qasim Fahmy! - The Workers Endorse their Kebir
Chapter 3. Shop Floor as Marketplace - Love and Consumption
      Sexualising the Workplace - The Struggle for Love
      'Love in a World Ruled by Money' (Il-Hub fi Zaman Il-Felus)
      Hub Il-Shibak: Love Matches
      Commodifying the Shop Floor - Trading in Dreams
      Celebrating Dreams - A Picture Says a Thousand Words
Chapter 4. Daughters of the Factory - Discipline and Nurture
      Discipline as Performance
      Performing Efficiency
      Mishmish Alley Cats - Distinctive Femininities
      Nurturing and Performing Male Power
Chapter 5. Globalised Takeover - Performance and Resistance
      Refashioning the Labour Landscape
      Retrieving the Firm as Family
      The End of the Road?
Chapter 6. Domination and Resistance
      Globalisation and Localisation
      Co-Optation and Appropriation
      The Revolution that Wasn't
Appendix: The Fashion Express Workforce
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index