Lynch (anthropology, Olin College, Needham, MA) examines how age is culturally constructed in the United States through a close, ethnographic study of Vita Needle, which employs elderly people. Divide
When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about th
