An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal

by Poulomi Saha

Book Overview

In today's world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives of numerous garment workers, mostly young women. The contemporary garment industry--and the labor organizing pushing back--draws on a long history of gendered labor division and exploitation in East Bengal, the historical antecedent of Bangladesh. Yet despite the centrality of women's labor to anticolonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231192088
• ISBN13: 9780231192088
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"