Unmaking the global sweatshop : health and safety of the world's garment workers /

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Prentice, Rebecca (Editor), Neve, Geert de (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:
Clothing workers > Health and hygiene.
Sweatshops.
Clothing factories > Safety measures.
Clothing trade.
Industrial safety.
Employee rights.
Occupational Health
Travailleurs du vêtement > Santé et hygiène.
Sweating-system.
Ateliers de confection > Sécurité > Mesures.
Sécurité du travail.
Personnel > Droits.
sweatshops.
occupational safety.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Clothing factories > Safety measures
Clothing trade
Clothing workers > Health and hygiene
Employee rights
Industrial safety
Sweatshops
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rethinking Garment Worker's Health and Safety
  • Part I. The Rise and Fall of Labor Standards
  • 1. Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today
  • 2. Voluntary Versus Binding Forms of Regulation in Global Production Networks: Exploring the Paradoxes of Partnership in the European Anti-Sweatshop Movement
  • 3. Sourcing Ethical Fashion for Collegiate Apparel: School House Lessons in Business and Ethics
  • Part II. From Structures to Actors, and Back
  • 4. Capital over Labor: Health and Safety in Export Processing Zone Garment Production since 1947
  • 5. Discourses of Compensation and the Normalization of Negligence: The Experience of the Tazreen Factory Fire
  • 6. Garment Sweatshop Regimes, the Laboring Body, and the Externalization of Social Responsibility over Health and Safety Provisions
  • Part III. Rethinking Health as Well-Being at Work and Home
  • 7. Limited Leave? Clinical Provisioning and Healthy Bodies in Sri Lanka's Apparel Sector
  • 8. Toward Meaningful Health and Safety Measures: Stigma and the Devaluation of Garment Work in Sri Lanka's Global Factories
  • 9. Beyond Building Safety: An Ethnographic Account of Health and Well-Being on the Bangladesh Garment Shop Floor
  • Afterword: Politics After Rana Plaza.

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