Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops /
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| Author / Creator: | Ross, Robert J. S., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004] |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212727 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Sweatshops are where hearts starve
- PART 1: THE FALL AND RISE OF SWEATSHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES: What is a sweatshop?
- Appendix I: Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 2000
- Memory of strike and fire
- The decline of sweatshops in the United States
- The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop
- PART 2: EXPLAINING THE RISE OF THE NEW SWEATSHOPS: Global capitalism and race to the bottom in the production of our clothes
- Retail chains: the eight-hundred- pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing
- Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes
- Immigrants and imports
- Union busting and the global runaway shop
- Framing immigrants, humilitating 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: Combating sweatshops from the grass roots
- Solidarity North and South: reframing international labor rights
- Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy
- Three pillars of decency
- Personal epilogue: Hearts starve.