Everyday Life of Ready-made Garment Kormi in Bangladesh

Mohammad Tareq Hasan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests include minority and ethnic groups, gender relations, collective action, anthropology of work, state formation, political economy, and egalitarianism.

• Part I.- 1. Contextualizing Ready-Made Garment Work in Bangladesh.- Part II.- 2. The Roots of Local Capitalism: Outlining and Understanding Global Connections.- 3. Tensions and Negotiations in Neoliberalism: Emergence of Garment Kormi as the Model Citizens.- Part III.- 4. Becoming Garment Kormi: Life in the Garment Factory.- 5. Kinship in the Factory: Garment Kormi Living a Life Away from Home.- 6. Negotiating the Public and the Private: Garment Kormi Becoming Joggo.- 7. Dare to Dream: Remaking Everyday Realities.- Part IV.- 8. Paradoxes of Factory Compliance: Auditing, CSR, and ‘New’ Dispossession.- Part V.- 9. The Multiple Realities of Neoliberalism and Garment Kormi.- 10.Epilogue: During the Pandemic.- Index.