This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers emergentMubarak-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 Chakravartis compelling study also moves beyond the confines of the factory, examining the interplay with the wider world around it.
Illustrations, Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
Map of the Nile Delta
Chapter 1. The Factory as Crucible
????? Port Said The Nations 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 theirKebir
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 SayslÓj
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