Making sweatshops : the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry /

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A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of the phenomenon abroad.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosen, Ellen Israel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Temas:
1900-1999
Clothing trade > United States > History > 20th century.
Clothing trade > History > 20th century.
Women clothing workers > United States.
Globalization.
Vêtements > Industrie et commerce > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Vêtements > Industrie et commerce > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleuses du vêtement > États-Unis.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Fashion & Textile Industry.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Clothing trade
Globalization
Women clothing workers
Kledingindustrie.
Sweatshops.
Internationalisatie.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Free trade, neoclassical economics, and women workers in the global apparel industry
  • Roots of the postwar textile and apparel trade: the reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim textile industry
  • Emergence of trade protection for the textile and apparel industries
  • U.S. textile industry: responses to free trade
  • U.S. Apparel industry: responses to capital flight
  • 1980s: the demise of protection
  • Reagan revolution: the Caribbean basin initiative
  • Trade liberalization for textiles and apparel: the impact of NAFTA
  • Apparel retailing in the United States: from mom-and-pop shop to transnational corporation
  • Finally free trade: the future of the global apparel industry
  • New global apparel trade: who wins, who loses?

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