{"product_id":"connective-tissue-lily-n-shapiro-9781978841536","title":"Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India","description":"An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, \u003ci\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lily N. Shapiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978841531\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978841536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Lily N. Shapiro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545913413887,"sku":"9781978841536","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7d8727a-0ba3-494f-96d9-968276513b1e.jpg?v=1738183681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/connective-tissue-lily-n-shapiro-9781978841536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}