Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops / Robert J. S. Ross.
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TextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- Sweatshops
- Clothing workers
- Clothing trade -- Corrupt practices
- Sweating-system
- Travailleurs du vêtement
- Vêtements -- Industrie et commerce -- Pratiques déloyales
- sweatshops
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy
- Clothing trade -- Corrupt practices
- Clothing workers
- Sweatshops
- Textilindustrie
- Arbeitsbedingungen
- Bekleidungsindustrie
- Ausbeutung
- USA
- Kleermakerijen
- Uitbuiting
- Armoede
- Arbeiders
- Management
- Industrial Management
- Business & Economics
- Vêtements -- Industrie et commerce -- Pratiques déloyales
- Sweating system
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- HD2337
- 85.65
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-376) and index.
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English.
Introduction: Sweatshops are where hearts starve -- PART 1: THE FALL AND RISE OF SWEATSHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES: What is a sweatshop? -- Appendix I: Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 2000 -- Memory of strike and fire -- The decline of sweatshops in the United States -- The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop -- PART 2: EXPLAINING THE RISE OF THE NEW SWEATSHOPS: Global capitalism and race to the bottom in the production of our clothes -- Retail chains: the eight-hundred- pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing -- Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes -- Immigrants and imports -- Union busting and the global runaway shop -- Framing immigrants, humilitating big shots: mass media and the sweatshop issue -- Appendix 2: Details of the immigrant blame analysis -- Conclusion to Part 2: Producing sweatshops in the United States -- PART 3: MOVEMENTS AND POLICIES: Combating sweatshops from the grass roots -- Solidarity North and South: reframing international labor rights -- Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy -- Three pillars of decency -- Personal epilogue: Hearts starve.
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Supported by carefully researched evidence, the author traces the 20th century fall and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry.
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