Lamia Karim is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (Minnesota, 2011).

"Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, Castoffs of Capital informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world."-Leela Fernandes, author of Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State   "In Castoffs of Capital, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless."-American Anthropologist

Lamia Karim is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (Minnesota, 2011).

"Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, Castoffs of Capital informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world."-Leela Fernandes, author of Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State   "In Castoffs of Capital, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless."-American Anthropologist

Lamia Karim is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (Minnesota, 2011).

"Lamia Karim provides a rich account of global capitalism from the perspective of women who produce the clothes that we wear everyday, offering a nuanced understanding of the complex choices and lives of the women who work in garment factories. Accessible and insightful, Castoffs of Capital informs interdisciplinary understandings of contemporary inequality, and it will transform our understanding of workers and the socioeconomic structures that shape the world."-Leela Fernandes, author of Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State   "In Castoffs of Capital, Lamia Karim presents new dimensions of garment workers’ lives, from the dynamics of capitalism to the nature of social norms that render these workers nameless and faceless."-American Anthropologist