Textile Factory Fieldwork
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As a part of my Clare Boothe Luce fellowship, I did anthropological fieldwork with Caitrin Lynch in one of the last remaining American textile factories.
I interviewed and shadowed several factory workers throughout three months of working 6:30am-3:30pm shifts. I kept a fieldwork journal of experiences and insights gained through this fieldwork. The goal of this research was to understand how a family-owned textile factory has remained in business when textile manufacturing has predominantly moved overseas, and to understand what motivates the individual factory workers to to do this labor-intensive work. |
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