Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops
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Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops
University of Michigan Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-376) and index
Notes: p. 339-351
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内容説明
Just as Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed uncovered the plight of the working poor in America, Robert J. S. Ross's Slaves to Fashion exposes the dark side of the apparel industry and its exploited workers at home and abroad. It's both a lesson in American business history and a warning about one of the most important issues facing the global capital economy-the reappearance of the sweatshop.
Vividly detailing the decline and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry of the twentieth century, Ross explains the new sweatshops as a product of unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union erosion, and exploitation of undocumented workers. Using historical material and economic and social data, the author shows that after a brief thirty-five years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and exploitation.
Refreshingly jargon-free but documented in depth, Slaves to Fashion is the only work to estimate the size of the sweatshop problem and to systematically show its impact on apparel workers' wages. It is also unique in its analysis of the budgets and personnel used in enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Anyone who is concerned about this urgent social and economic topic and wants to go beyond the headlines should read this important and timely contribution to the rising debate on low-wage factory labor.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sweatshops Are Where Hearts Starve
Part 1. The Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the United States
Chapter 1. What Is a Sweatshop?
Appendix 1. Estimating the Number of Sweatshop Workers in the United States in 2000
Chapter 2. Memory of Strike and Fire
Chapter 3. The Decline of Sweatshops in the United States
Chapter 4. The Era of Decency and the Return of the Sweatshop
Part 2. Explaining the Rise of the New Sweatshops
Chapter 5. Global Capitalism and the Race to the Bottom in the Production of Our Clothes
Chapter 6. Retail Chains: The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorillas of the World Trade in Clothing
Chapter 7. Firing Guard Dogs and Hiring Foxes
Chapter 8. Immigrants and Imports
Chapter 9. Union Busting and the Global Runaway Shop
Chapter 10. Framing Immigrants, Humiliating 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
Chapter 11. Combating Sweatshops from the Grass Roots
Chapter 12. Solidarity North and South: Reframing International Labor Rights
Chapter 13. Ascending a Ladder of Effective Antisweatshop Policy
Chapter 14: Three Pillars of Decency
Personal Epilogue: Hearts Starve
Notes
References
Index
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