<p> Over the last decade Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. <em>Glimpses of Hope</em> tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing water-bottling house building and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work where union organization can help and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.</p>