Unmaking the Global Sweatshop : Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers / Rebecca Prentice, Geert De Neve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Neve, Geert.

Prentice, Rebecca.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing workers--Health and hygiene.

Clothing workers.

Sweatshops.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.

Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking Garment Worker's Health and Safety

Part I. The Rise and Fall of Labor Standards

1. Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today

2. Voluntary Versus Binding Forms of Regulation in Global Production Networks: Exploring the Paradoxes of Partnership in the European Anti-Sweatshop Movement

3. Sourcing Ethical Fashion for Collegiate Apparel: School House Lessons in Business and Ethics

Part II. From Structures to Actors, and Back

4. Capital over Labor: Health and Safety in Export Processing Zone Garment Production since 1947

5. Discourses of Compensation and the Normalization of Negligence: The Experience of the Tazreen Factory Fire

6. Garment Sweatshop Regimes, the Laboring Body, and the Externalization of Social Responsibility over Health and Safety Provisions

Part III. Rethinking Health as Well-Being at Work and Home

7. Limited Leave? Clinical Provisioning and Healthy Bodies in Sri Lanka's Apparel Sector

8. Toward Meaningful Health and Safety Measures: Stigma and the Devaluation of Garment Work in Sri Lanka's Global Factories

9. Beyond Building Safety: An Ethnographic Account of Health and Well-Being on the Bangladesh Garment Shop Floor

Afterword: Politics After Rana Plaza.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780812294316

0812294319

OCLC:

1003162930