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100 1  Prentice, Rebecca.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2014064713 
245 10 Thiefing a chance :|bfactory work, illicit labor, and 
       neoliberal subjectivities in Trinidad /|cRebecca Prentice.
264  1 Boulder :|bUniversity Press of Colorado,|c2015. 
300    1 online resource 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  List of illustrations -- Map of trinidad -- 
       Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Being a factory the 
       signature way -- Raced and emplaced : the signature 
       fashions workers -- "Is we own factory" : thiefing a 
       chance on the shop floor -- "Keeping up with style" : the 
       struggle for skill -- "Use a next hand" : risk, injury the
       body at work -- "Kidnapping go build back we economy" : 
       criminal tropes in neoliberal capitalism -- Conclusions: 
       work, risk and love -- Endnotes -- Bibliography. 
520    "When an IMF-backed program of liberalization opened 
       Trinidad's borders to foreign ready-made apparel, global 
       competition damaged the local industry and unraveled 
       worker entitlements and expectations but also presented 
       new economic opportunities for engaging the "global" 
       market. This fascinating ethnography explores contemporary
       life in the Signature Fashions garment factory, where the 
       workers attempt to exploit gaps in these new labor 
       configurations through illicit and informal uses of the 
       factory, a practice they colloquially refer to as 
       "thiefing a chance." Drawing on fifteen months of 
       fieldwork, author Rebecca Prentice combines a vivid 
       picture of factory life, first-person accounts, and 
       anthropological analysis to explore how economic 
       restructuring has been negotiated, lived, and recounted by
       women working in the garment industry during Trinidad's 
       transition to a neoliberal economy. Through careful social
       coordination, the workers "thief" by copying patterns, 
       taking portions of fabric, teaching themselves how to 
       operate machines, and wearing their work outside the 
       factory. Even so, the workers describe their "thiefing" as
       a personal, individualistic enterprise rather than a form 
       of collective resistance to workplace authority. By making
       and taking furtive opportunities, they embrace a vision of
       themselves as enterprising subjects while actively 
       complying with the competitive demands of a neoliberal 
       economic order. Prentice presents the factory not as a 
       stable institution but instead as a material and social 
       space in which the projects, plans, and desires of workers
       and their employers become aligned and misaligned, at some
       moments in deep harmony and at others in rancorous 
       conflict. Arguing for the productive power of the informal
       and illicit, Thiefing a Chance contributes to 
       anthropological debates about the very nature of 
       neoliberal capitalism and will be of great interest to 
       undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in 
       anthropology, labor studies, Caribbean studies, and 
       development studies"--The publisher. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Neoliberalism|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh2005001629|zTrinidad and Tobago|zTrinidad.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81008541-781 
650  0 Work environment|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85148146|zTrinidad and Tobago|zTrinidad.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81008541-781 
650  0 Clothing factories|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85027170|zTrinidad and Tobago|zTrinidad.|0https
       ://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81008541-781 
650  0 Clothing workers|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85027178|zTrinidad and Tobago|zTrinidad.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81008541-781 
650  7 Neoliberalism.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1737382
650  7 Work environment.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1180270 
650  7 Clothing factories.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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650  7 Clothing workers.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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651  7 Trinidad and Tobago|zTrinidad.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1211576 
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aPrentice, Rebecca.|tThiefing a chance.
       |dBoulder : University Press of Colorado, 2015|w(DLC)  
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