Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (2022).

Lamia Karim, Anthropology and 2018–19 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. 

Castoffs of Capital draws on fieldwork in Bangladesh to examine how female garment workers experience their work and personal lives within the stranglehold of global capital. Anthropologist Lamia Karim focuses on relations among work, gender, and global capital’s targeting of poor women to advance its market penetration, showing how women navigate these spaces by adopting new subject formations.