Clothed in Integrity : Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry /

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Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes global trends. The resurgence of sweatshops affects the working poor in both first- and third-world...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Paleczny, Barbara
Corporate Authors: Project Muse, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000
Series:Studies in women and religion (Waterloo, Ont.) ; v. 6.
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Subjects:
Feminist theology.
Christian ethics.
Home labor > Ontario > Toronto.
Women clothing workers > Ontario > Toronto.
Clothing trade > Moral and ethical aspects.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Identifying Relations of Ruling and Solidarity. 1. Present Conditions of Garment Homeworking in Toronto: The Microeconomics of a Low-Wage Strategy. 2. The Macroeconomics of Garment Homeworking: Homework in Its Historical Context. 3. The Macroeconomics of Garment Homeworking: The International Web of Production and Feminist Analysis of the Relations of Ruling. 4. Transforming the Local Situation in Its Global Context
  • Pt. II. Constructing Feminist Socio-economic Ethics as Transformative Theology. 5. Horizon, Bias and Specificity/Difference Analysis Related to Homeworking. 6. Home Outside the Public Eye. 7. Discerning Elements for Socio-economic Ethics.

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