Connective Tissue
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Connective Tissue

Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India

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eBook - ePub

Connective Tissue

Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India

About this book

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meaning is made from experiences of trauma, care, and recovery. The book charts a rough chronology of the accident—from the workspace that preceded it, the transformation of the workspace by the accident, through journeys to and treatment in the hospital, and then the various and complex ways in which the accident reverberates into the future during recovery.
 
Connective Tissue revisits scholarship on factory labor by analyzing the accident as constitutive of the experience of work itself, and it refines existing conversations about the body, trauma, and care by introducing an analysis informed by theories of labor and production. Author Lily N. Shapiro argues that care does not happen in spite of or on the margins of capitalism, but rather that capitalism happens in and through care and caring relations. These experiences are intersected by identities of caste, class, and gender, and entangled in state discourse about labor rights, welfare, and industrial law.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by Lenore Manderson
  8. Note on Transliteration
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. “Are These Machines Dangerous?”: Factory Accidents, Risk, and Labor
  11. 2. Paḻakkam: Habit, Care, and Recovery
  12. 3. Form, Function, and Productivity at the Hospital
  13. 4. Futures, Care, and Capitalism
  14. 5. Labor Law and Responsibility
  15. Conclusion: What Is a Hand?
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. Series List