Sweatshop USA
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ACTWU
AFLCIO
american
American Sweatshops
Antisweatshop Activism
Antisweatshop Movement
Apparel Industry
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Caribbean Basin Initiative
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Category=KCF
Category=KND
CIO
El Monte
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FLA
garment
Garment Industry
Garment Unions
Garment Workers
ILGWU
Industrial Citizens
industry
Italian American Women
Italian Women
kathie
La Mujer Obrera
monte
NLC.
NRA
park
production
sunset
Sunset Park
unions
Women Garment Workers
workers
Product details
- ISBN 9780415935616
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.
Daniel E. Bender is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Richard A. Greenwald is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
