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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Robert J. S., 1943-

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sweatshops.

Clothing workers.

Clothing trade--Corrupt practices.

Clothing trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Slaves to fashion

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sweatshops Are Where Hearts Starve

Part 1. The Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the United States

Chapter 1. What Is a Sweatshop?

Appendix 1. Estimating the Number of Sweatshop Workers in the United States in 2000

Chapter 2. Memory of Strike and Fire

Chapter 3. The Decline of Sweatshops in the United States

Chapter 4. The Era of Decency and the Return of the Sweatshop

Part 2. Explaining the Rise of the New Sweatshops

Chapter 5. Global Capitalism and the Race to the Bottom in the Production of Our Clothes

Chapter 6. Retail Chains: The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorillas of the World Trade in Clothing

Chapter 7. Firing Guard Dogs and Hiring Foxes

Chapter 8. Immigrants and Imports

Chapter 9. Union Busting and the Global Runaway Shop

Chapter 10. Framing Immigrants, Humiliating 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

Chapter 11. Combating Sweatshops from the Grass Roots

Chapter 12. Solidarity North and South: Reframing International Labor Rights

Chapter 13. Ascending a Ladder of Effective Antisweatshop Policy

Chapter 14. Three Pillars of Decency

Personal Epilogue: Hearts Starve

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-376) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612594052

9781282594050

1282594052

9780472025664

047202566X

OCLC:

613192830