Behind the label : inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry / Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum ; with Ku-Sup Chin [and others].
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520925595
- 0520925599
- 0585391718
- 9780585391717
- 9780520217690
- 0520217691
- 9780520225060
- 0520225066
- Clothing trade -- California -- Los Angeles
- Clothing workers -- California -- Los Angeles
- Sweatshops -- California -- Los Angeles
- Travailleurs du vêtement -- Californie -- Los Angeles
- Sweating-system -- Californie -- Los Angeles
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital
- Clothing trade
- Clothing workers
- Sweatshops
- California -- Los Angeles
- 331.7/687/00979494 21
- HD9940.U5 L712 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index.
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Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Manufacturers; 2. Offshore Production (with Melanie Myers); 3. Retailers; 4. The Power Elite; 5. Contractors (with Ku-Sup Chin); 6. Workers (with Gregory Scott); 7. The Distribution of Wealth; 8. Government Enforcement and Retention Efforts; 9. Worker Empowerment; 10. The Antisweatshop Movement; Afterword; Notes; Bibliographic Notes; Index.
In this study, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production.
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