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Direct linkPrentice, Rebecca – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Industry, Sewing Instruction
