Unraveling the Garment Industry : Transnational Organizing and Women's Work.

By: Brooks, Ethel CMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816654116Subject(s): Anti-sweatshop movement | Protest movements -- International cooperation | Social conflict | Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions | Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions | Working class womenGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unraveling the Garment Industry : Transnational Organizing and Women's WorkDDC classification: 331.4/25 LOC classification: HD2337 -- .B76 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Children, Schools, and Labored Questions -- 2. Organizing in Times of (Post)War -- 3. The Ideal of Transnational Organizing -- 4. Disciplining Bodies -- 5. Women First? -- 6. Living Proof -- Epilogue: Gender and the Work of Branding -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsÑagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityÑEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Children, Schools, and Labored Questions -- 2. Organizing in Times of (Post)War -- 3. The Ideal of Transnational Organizing -- 4. Disciplining Bodies -- 5. Women First? -- 6. Living Proof -- Epilogue: Gender and the Work of Branding -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsÑagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityÑEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.

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