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.
Author: Michael Hoffmann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 01/13/2023
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781800738102
ISBN10: 1800738102
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
About the Author
Michael Hoffmann is a Research Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Previously, he worked as a senior research fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, as a post-doc fellow at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology in Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.