"No One Ever Showed Me Nothing": Skill and Self-Making among Trinidadian Garment Workers

Autor/in	Prentice, Rebecca
Titel	"No One Ever Showed Me Nothing": Skill and Self-Making among Trinidadian Garment Workers
Quelle	In: Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 43 (2012) 4, S.400-414 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-7761
DOI	10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01193.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Clothing; Industry; Sewing Instruction; Patternmaking; Clothing Instruction; Skill Development; Economic Opportunities; Expertise; International Trade; Employer Employee Relationship; Work Environment; Labor Conditions; Context Effect; Adjustment (to Environment); Entrepreneurship; Females; Informal Education; Ethnography; Lifelong Learning; Trinidad and Tobago + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kleidung; Industrie; Handarbeitsunterricht; Musterbildung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Expert appraisal; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Arbeitsmilieu; Arbeitsbedingungen; Unternehmungsgeist; Weibliches Geschlecht; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Ethnografie; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Trinidad und Tobago
Abstract	This article examines the relationship between skill acquisition and the constitution of economic selfhood in Trinidad. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among garment workers in a context of industrial decline, I show how their formal, informal, and illicit means of acquiring sewing skills are inextricably linked to the fragmented and unstable economic opportunities available to them. Learning to sew means learning to be a flexible economic actor, which helps workers survive but disadvantages them in waged labor relationships. By investigating the role of pleasure in self-training, I emphasize the neglected importance of emotion for understanding livelihood strategies. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10