Glimpses of Hope

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.

• AcknowledgementsA Note on the TextMap of NepalIntroduction: The Noodle KingPart I: Work at the Margins of NepalgunjChapter 1. From Casual to Permanent Work in a Food FactoryChapter 2. From Bonded to Industrial Labor in a Food FactoryChapter 3. New Forms of Spirituality in a Modern Food FactoryPart II: Work at the Margins of PokharaChapter 4. Work, Precarity, and Militant Unionism in an Industrial AreaChapter 5. Gendered Divisions of Work in the Water Bottling PlantsChapter 6. Class, Ethnicity, and Labor Mobilization in the Construction IndustryChapter 7. Mafia, Labor, and Shamanism in a Sand MineConclusion: Glimpses of HopeGlossaryReferencesIndex

“The book is ethnographically driven, based on an impressive piece of original research that is a very welcome addition to both anthropology and social science more broadly. It is well-written, in an accessible manner, without the use of unnecessary or overwrought theoretical jargon.” • Mikkel Vindegg, CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo