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
Autor principal: Brooks, Ethel Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Working class women.
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Economic conditions.
Social conflict.
Protest movements > International cooperation.
Anti-sweatshop movement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Contestation > Cooperation internationale.
Mouvement de lutte contre le sweating-system.
Women > Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Women > Developing countries > Social conditions.
Developing countries.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780816654116

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