Prologue : digital first responders -- Introduction : disruptive development in Bangladesh -- Women's work : the arena of disruption -- Digital technology : the problems of (and solutions to) connectivity -- The making and unmaking of entrepreneurs -- A diversified basket of services -- Middle-class projects and the development moral economy -- The ambiguous figures of social enterprise -- Conclusion : the time of social enterprise.
Summary:
"Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research in northwestern Bangladesh, this book examines social entrepreneurship through the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of social-enterprise models and enmesh the social identities of poor women entrepreneurs, front-line enterprise workers, and the development elite"-- Provided by publisher.
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