by Shormila Akter Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh examines the lives of female garments … More
Tag: Capitalism
Review: ‘Reclaiming the discarded: life and labour on Rio’s garbage dump’ (2018)
by Holly Cawsey In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro saw the close of Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills … More
Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.
By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s … More
Review: ‘Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States’
by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover … More
Review: ‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea’
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness … More