Article

Prentice, Rebecca and Sumon, Mahmudul H (2023) Social protection as technocratic fix? Labor precarity and crises of capitalism after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza collapse. Journal of Labor and Society. pp. 1-25. ISSN 2471-4607

Prentice, Rebecca (2023) Writing labour into ethical apparel production. A review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. ISSN 0129-7619 (Accepted)

Prentice, Rebecca (2021) Labour rights from labour wrongs? transnational compensation and the spatial politics of labour rights after Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza garment factory collapse. Antipode. pp. 1-20. ISSN 0066-4812

Prentice, Rebecca (2020) Work after precarity: anthropologies of labor and wageless life [Review] Stephen Campbell (2018) Border capitalism, disrupted: precarity and struggle in a Southeast Asian industrial zone; Penny McCall Howard (2017) Environment, labour and capitalism at sea: “working the ground” in Scotland; Kathleen Millar (2018) Reclaiming the discarded: life and labor on Rio’s garbage dump; Mallika Shakya (2018) Death of an industry: the cultural politics of garment manufacturing during the Maoist Revolution in Nepal. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2020 (88). pp. 117-124. ISSN 0920-1297

Prentice, Rebecca (2019) Just compensation? The price of death and injury after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse. Research in Economic Anthropology, 39. pp. 157-178. ISSN 0190-1281

Ashraf, Hasan and Prentice, Rebecca (2019) Beyond factory safety: Labor unions, militant protest, and the accelerated ambitions of Bangladesh’s export garment industry. Dialectical Anthropology, 43 (1). pp. 93-107. ISSN 0304-4092

Prentice, Rebecca and Trueba, Mei (2018) Precarious bodies: occupational risk assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad. Global Labour Journal, 9 (1). pp. 41-56. ISSN 1918-6711

Prentice, Rebecca, De Neve, Geert, Mezzadri, Alessandra and Ruwanpura, Kanchana N (2018) Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: setting a new research agenda. Geoforum, 88. pp. 157-160. ISSN 0016-7185

Prentice, Rebecca (2017) Microenterprise development, industrial labour, and the seductions of precarity. Critique of Anthropology, 37 (2). pp. 201-222. ISSN 0308-275X

Prentice, Rebecca (2016) [Review] Carla Freeman (2015) Entrepreneurial selves: neoliberal respectability and the making of a Caribbean middle class. Journal of Latin American Studies, 48 (3). pp. 648-649. ISSN 0022-216X

Prentice, Rebecca (2016) [Review] Andrew Morton (2015) The True Cost. Anthropology of Work Review, 37 (1). pp. 60-61. ISSN 0883-024X

Prentice, Rebecca (2012) "No one ever showed me nothing": skill and self-making among Trinidadian garment workers. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 43 (4). pp. 400-414. ISSN 0161-7761

Prentice, Rebecca (2012) 'Kidnapping go build back we economy': discourses of crime at work in neoliberal Trinidad. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18 (1). pp. 45-64. ISSN 1359-0987

Carlin, Leslie, Smith, Helen, Henwood, Flis, Flowers, Steve, Jones, Andrea, Prentice, Rebecca and Miles, Ken (2010) Double vision: an exploration of radiologists’ and general practitioners’ views on using picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). Health Informatics Journal, 16 (2). pp. 75-86. ISSN 1460-4582

Prentice, Rebecca and Whitelaw, Gavin Hamilton (2008) Introduction to Special Issue "Embodying Labor: Work as Fieldwork". Anthropology of Work Review, 29 (3). pp. 53-54. ISSN 0883-024X

Prentice, Rebecca (2008) Knowledge, Skill, and the Inculcation of the Anthropologist: Reflections on Learning to Sew in the Field. Anthropology of Work Review, 29 (3). pp. 54-61. ISSN 0883-024X

Prentice, Rebecca (2008) Looping the value chain: Designer copies in a brand-name garment factory. Research in Economic Anthropology, 28. pp. 97-121. ISSN 0190-1281

Book Section

Prentice, Rebecca (2022) Production. In: Carrier, James G (ed.) A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, 3rd Edition. Edward Elgar, pp. 98-109. ISBN 9781839108914

Prentice, Rebecca (2018) From dispossessed factory workers to “micro-entrepreneurs”: the precariousness of employment in Trinidad’s garment sector. In: Hann, Chris and Parry, Jonathan (eds.) Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class and the Neoliberal Subject. Berghahn, New York, pp. 289-308. ISBN 9781785336782

De Neve, Geert and Prentice, Rebecca (2017) Introduction: Rethinking garment workers' health and safety. In: Prentice, Rebecca and De Neve, Geert (eds.) Unmaking the global sweatshop: health and safety of the world’s garment workers. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812249392

Prentice, Rebecca (2016) Feeling a way through: affective problem-solving in dressmaking. In: Marchand, Trevor H J (ed.) Craftwork as Problem Solving. Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, pp. 169-182. ISBN 9781472442925

Prentice, Rebecca (2014) Cultural competence in health. In: Cockerham, William C, Dingwall, Robert and Quah, Stella R (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of health, illness, behavior, and society. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781444330762

Prentice, Rebecca (2010) Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Development Research: The Contributions of Anthropology. In: Bourgeault, Ivy, Dingwall, Robert and de Vries, Raymond (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research. SAGE, pp. 157-173. ISBN 9781847872920

Prentice, Rebecca (2009) "Thiefing a Chance": Moral Meanings of Theft in a Trinidadian Garment Factory. In: Browne, Katherine E and Milgram, B Lynne (eds.) Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches. Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs, 26 . AltaMira Press, pp. 123-141. ISBN 9780759112018

Reports and working papers

Prentice, Rebecca (2019) [Policy briefing] Employment injury insurance: key to raising labour standards in Bangladesh? Other. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Prentice, Rebecca (2018) Workers’ right to compensation after garment factory disasters: making rights a reality. Technical Report. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Conference or Workshop Item

Prentice, Rebecca and Trueba, Mei (2015) Precarious bodies: occupational risk assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad. In: Precarious Economy: Informality and Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid’. Precarious Labour, Precarious Lives Discussion Panel, December 2015, Sussex University.

Book

Prentice, Rebecca (2015) Thiefing a chance: factory work, illicit labor, and neoliberal subjectivities in Trinidad. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, USA. ISBN 9781607323723

Prentice, Rebecca (2015) Thiefing a chance : factory work, illicit labor, and neoliberal subjectivities in Trinidad. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. . University Press of Colorado, Boulder. ISBN 9781607323754 1607323753

Edited Book

Prentice, Rebecca and De Neve, Geert (2017) Unmaking the global sweatshop: health and safety of the world’s garment workers. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 9780812249392