Unraveling the garment industry : transnational organizing and women's work /

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Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer prote...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Ethel Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Colección:Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 27.
Temas:
Anti-sweatshop movement.
Protest movements > International cooperation.
Women > Developing countries > Social conditions.
Women > Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Working class women.
Social conflict.
Mouvement de lutte contre le sweating-system.
Contestation > Coopération internationale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Anti-sweatshop movement
Protest movements > International cooperation
Social conflict
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Working class women
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Children, schools, and labored questions
  • Organizing in times of (post)war
  • The ideal of transnational organizing
  • Disciplining bodies
  • Women first?
  • Living proof
  • Epilogue: gender and the work of branding
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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