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Unraveling the garment industry : transnational organizing and women's work / Ethel C. Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Ethel Carolyn.
- Series:
- Social movements, protest, and contention series ; v. 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-sweatshop movement.
- Protest movements--International cooperation.
- Protest movements.
- Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Developing countries--Economic conditions.
- Working class women.
- Social conflict.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- List of acronyms
- Introduction
- Children, schools, and labored questions
- Organizing in times of (post)war
- The ideal of transnational organizing
- Disciplining bodies
- Women first?
- Living proof
- Epilogue: gender and the work of branding
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5411-5
- OCLC:
- 476125651
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