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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Ethel Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780816654116

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