“The book is ethnographically driven, based on an impressive piece of original research that is a very welcome addition to both anthropology and social science more broadly. It is well-written, in an accessible manner, without the use of unnecessary or overwrought theoretical jargon.” • Mikkel Vindegg, CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo

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 gender and ethnicity. Although global labor relations have been mostly in decline for decades, this ethnography offers insights and glimpses of hope in terms of labor dynamics and the opportunities various jobs may afford.

Series: Volume 32, Dislocations

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

Area: Asia

LC: HD8670.9 .H63 2023

BL: DRT ELD.DS.749340

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC015000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Human Geography; SOC026030 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban