Global sweatshops : a feminist theory of exploitation and resistance / Mirjam Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Mirjam, author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sweatshops--History.

Sweatshops.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 149 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. This book develops an intersectional feminist critique of the working conditions in sweatshops by analysing the role of gender, race, and migration status in bringing about and justifying the exploitation of workers on factory floors. Based on this analysis, the book argues that sweatshop workers are structurally vulnerable to exploitation in virtue of their position as gendered, racialized, and migrant workers within global supply chains.

Contents:

Introduction: 'Shut Down the Mills'

I.1 A feminist critique of sweatshop labour

I.2 Why sweatshop labour?

I.3 Plan of the book

1. 'Cheap Clothes and Nasty': Modern Sweatshop Labour

1.1 Sweatshop labour as a frame of analysis

1.2 Modern sweatshops

1.3 Global capitalism, imperialism, and sweatshop labour

1.4 Differences in (global) production

Conclusion

2. Towards a Structural Approach to Sweatshop Labour

2.1 Micro-​level perspectives on sweatshop labour

2.2 Social structures

2.3 Challenges to micro-​level perspectives

2.4 Challenges for a structural analysis of sweatshop labour

3. A Marxist Feminist Approach to Sweatshop Labour

3.1 Marx on exploitation and capitalism

3.2 Towards a normative reconstruction of exploitation

3.3 Key characteristics of Marxist/​socialist feminist perspectives

4. Exploitation, Marginalization, and Disposability

4.1 Sweatshop labour relations from a structural perspective

4.2 Structural vulnerability

4.3 Structural vulnerability and relative power in sweatshop labour

4.4 Structural exploitation

4.5 Reproducing exploitation

4.6 The normative critique of sweatshop labour

5. Responsibility for Sweatshop Labour

5.1 Moral responsibility for sweatshop labour?

5.2 The grounds of political responsibility: Social connections

5.3 Taking up political responsibility

5.4 The moral status of political responsibility

5.5 Responsibility in practice

Conclusion: Transnational Resistance and Solidarity

C.1 Responsibility and practices of solidarity

C.2 Resistance, responsibility, and solidarity

C.3 Transnational solidarity: Practices and institutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 15, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-776723-0

0-19-776721-4

OCLC:

1429906074