Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Rebecca Prentice

Rebecca Prentice is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology.  Her work is concerned with neoliberal trade regimes, industrial labour, and the politics of occupational health.  Her doctoral research explored the working lives of women employed in the garment sector in Trinidad, West Indies, during a time of trade liberalisation and industrial collapse.  Situated at the intersection of medical anthropology and the anthropology of work, her research explores how the experience of economic restructuring can be uniquely understood through the register of ‘the body.’

Selected publications

2009.  ‘“Thiefing a Chance”: Moral Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment Factory.’ In Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches, ed. by Katherine E. Browne and B. Lynne Milgram, pp.123-41. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press SEA Monograph Series.

2008. ‘Knowledge, Skill, and the Inculcation of the Anthropologist: Reflections on Learning to Sew in the Field.’ Anthropology of Work Review, Special Issue on Embodiment and Work. 29(3):54-61.