“Book Review: Mallika Shakya. 2018. Death of an Industry: The Cultural Politics of Garment Manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal”

This review evaluates an important addition to the anthropology of industrial growth and decline in South Asia. Mallika Shakya’s ethnography of the garment industry in Nepal is as much a close look at entrepreneurship, labor practices, and trade unions as it is a commentary on US trade policy, uneven development, and Maoist revolutionary politics.