Sweatshop Exchanges: Gifts and Giving in the Global Factory
Cross Jamie, 2012
Name of publisher/editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Geographic area
Asia
Summary & key words
This chapter asks what we should make of the gift exchanges that take place between workers and their managers on the floor of a massive offshore manufacturing unit in South India. Such exchanges appear anomalous in the ethnography of global manufacturing yet here they underpinned the organisation of hyper-intensive production processes.