Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ross, Robert J. S., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
Temas:
Sweatshops.
Clothing workers.
Clothing trade > Corrupt practices.
Sweating-system.
Travailleurs du vêtement.
Vêtements > Industrie et commerce > Pratiques déloyales.
sweatshops.
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
Kleermakerijen.
Uitbuiting.
Armoede.
Arbeiders.
Sweating system.
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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