TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross,Robert J.S.
TI  - Slaves to fashion: poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops 
SN  - 9780472025664
AV  - HD2337 
U1  - 331.25 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Sweatshops
KW  - Clothing workers
KW  - Clothing trade
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Sweating-system
KW  - Travailleurs du vêtement
KW  - Vêtements
KW  - Industrie et commerce
KW  - Pratiques déloyales
KW  - sweatshops
KW  - aat
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Textilindustrie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Arbeitsbedingungen
KW  - Bekleidungsindustrie
KW  - Ausbeutung
KW  - Kleermakerijen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Uitbuiting
KW  - Armoede
KW  - Arbeiders
KW  - ram
KW  - Sweating system
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-376) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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