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Sewing hope : how one factory challenges the apparel industry's sweatshops / Sarah Adler-Milstein, John M. Kline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler-Milstein, Sarah, author.
- Kline, John M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alta Gracia Apparel.
- Clothing trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Clothing trade.
- Sweatshops.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union-all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry's usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers' stories reveal how adding US .90 to a sweatshirt's production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry's sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Difference between Heaven and Earth
- 2. From Factory Favorite to Fighter
- 3. Risky Proposition, Unlikely Alliance
- 4. Ideals into Action
- 5. Escaping Scripted Roles
- 6. Stories of Transformation
- 7. Surviving on Our Own
- 8. Replication or Revolution
- Afterword: Taking Action
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780520966246
- 0520966244
- OCLC:
- 980346827
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