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Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops / Robert J.S. Ross.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472025664
  • 047202566X
  • 1282594052
  • 9781282594050
  • 9786612594052
  • 6612594055
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Slaves to fashion.DDC classification:
  • 331.25 22
LOC classification:
  • HD2337
Other classification:
  • 85.65
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Sweatshops are where hearts starve -- PART 1: THE FALL AND RISE OF SWEATSHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES: What is a sweatshop? -- Appendix I: Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 2000 -- Memory of strike and fire -- The decline of sweatshops in the United States -- The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop -- PART 2: EXPLAINING THE RISE OF THE NEW SWEATSHOPS: Global capitalism and race to the bottom in the production of our clothes -- Retail chains: the eight-hundred- pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing -- Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes -- Immigrants and imports -- Union busting and the global runaway shop -- Framing immigrants, humilitating big shots: mass media and the sweatshop issue -- Appendix 2: Details of the immigrant blame analysis -- Conclusion to Part 2: Producing sweatshops in the United States -- PART 3: MOVEMENTS AND POLICIES: Combating sweatshops from the grass roots -- Solidarity North and South: reframing international labor rights -- Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy -- Three pillars of decency -- Personal epilogue: Hearts starve.
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Summary: Supported by carefully researched evidence, the author traces the 20th century fall and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-376) and index.

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English.

Introduction: Sweatshops are where hearts starve -- PART 1: THE FALL AND RISE OF SWEATSHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES: What is a sweatshop? -- Appendix I: Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 2000 -- Memory of strike and fire -- The decline of sweatshops in the United States -- The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop -- PART 2: EXPLAINING THE RISE OF THE NEW SWEATSHOPS: Global capitalism and race to the bottom in the production of our clothes -- Retail chains: the eight-hundred- pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing -- Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes -- Immigrants and imports -- Union busting and the global runaway shop -- Framing immigrants, humilitating big shots: mass media and the sweatshop issue -- Appendix 2: Details of the immigrant blame analysis -- Conclusion to Part 2: Producing sweatshops in the United States -- PART 3: MOVEMENTS AND POLICIES: Combating sweatshops from the grass roots -- Solidarity North and South: reframing international labor rights -- Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy -- Three pillars of decency -- Personal epilogue: Hearts starve.

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Supported by carefully researched evidence, the author traces the 20th century fall and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry.

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