Monitoring sweatshops : workers, consumers, and the global apparel industry / Jill Esbenshade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esbenshade, Jill Louise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sweatshops.

Clothing trade.

Clothing workers.

Wages--Clothing workers.

Wages.

Globalization.

Consumers--Attitudes.

Consumers.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004.

Contents:

Introduction: Monitoring, Sweatshops, and Labor Relations 1

1 The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract in the Apparel Industry 13

2 The Social-Accountability Contract 33

3 Private Monitoring in Practice 60

4 Weaknesses and Conflicts in Private Monitoring 89

5 The Development of International Monitoring 119

6 Examining International Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Efforts 145

7 The Struggle for Independent Monitoring 165

Conclusion: Workers, Consumers, and Independent Monitoring 198

Appendix 1 Confessions of a Sweatshop Monitor / Joshua Samuel Brown 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-260) and index.

ISBN:

1592132553

1592132561

OCLC:

53483451