Kathleen Millar
Biographic Data
| ID | 223182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Millar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Millar |
| SIGNATURE | MILLAR K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Making Trash into Treasure
In recent years, the expansion of types of work that fall outside the category of formal waged employment challenge many of our anthropological conceptions of labor, class politics and contemporary capitalism. This paper addresses the need to rethink the meaning of work in the context of neoliberal capitalism by exploring the formation of new worker subjectivities and practices among catadores: informal workers who collect and sell recyclable mat…
In Memory of Sonja Luehrmann
À la mémoire de Sonja Luehrmann
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Making Trash into Treasure
In recent years, the expansion of types of work that fall outside the category of formal waged employment challenge many of our anthropological conceptions of labor, class politics and contemporary capitalism. This paper addresses the need to rethink the meaning of work in the context of neoliberal capitalism by exploring the formation of new worker subjectivities and practices among catadores: informal workers who collect and sell recyclable mat…
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
In Memory of Sonja Luehrmann
À la mémoire de Sonja Luehrmann
Making Trash into Treasure
In recent years, the expansion of types of work that fall outside the category of formal waged employment challenge many of our anthropological conceptions of labor, class politics and contemporary capitalism. This paper addresses the need to rethink the meaning of work in the context of neoliberal capitalism by exploring the formation of new worker subjectivities and practices among catadores: informal workers who collect and sell recyclable mat…
Dialectical Anthropology
This article explores the relationship between labor unions and labor precarity in Bangladesh's garment industry.After a string of high-profile factory disasters-including the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building-Bangladeshi labor unions have played a central role in new global initiatives to improve factory safety.These initiatives have provided an opportunity for unions to influence the governance of labor standards in a con…
Dirt and Debt
Beginning in the early 2000s, policies and legislation aimed at financial inclusion drew millions of low-income Brazilians into the banking system for the first time. When many of these consumers were unable to keep up with credit card payments, they acquired a "dirty name"-the common expression in Brazil for default. An analysis of the historical origins and current use of this expression shows how it operates as a technology of racialization th…
Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cartography (1 work) · Debt (1 work) · Dialectic (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work) · Dirt (1 work) · Economics (1 work)