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Direct linkPrentice, Rebecca – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
This article examines the relationship between skill acquisition and the constitution of economic selfhood in Trinidad. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among garment workers in a context of industrial decline, I show how their formal, informal, and illicit means of acquiring sewing skills are inextricably linked to the fragmented and unstable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Industry, Sewing Instruction
Chang, Ho-Jun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation deals with the tense relation between the visibility of unauthorized economic practices and the invisibility of law in Zhongguancun (ZGC) Beijing, a Chinese information technology (IT) industry center dubbed "China's Silicon Valley." This dissertation ethnographically examines the double process of extra-legal/illegal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Industry, Intellectual Property
