Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in areas such as modern food-processing, water-bottling, housebuilding, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of g...
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Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Map of Nepal
Introduction: The Noodle King
Part I: Work at the Margins of Nepalgunj
Chapter 1. From Casual to Permanent ...
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Michael Hoffmann is a Research Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Pr...