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Author Bonacich, Edna

Title Behind the label : inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry / Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum ; with Ku-Sup Chin [and others]
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 395 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Manufacturers; 2. Offshore Production (with Melanie Myers); 3. Retailers; 4. The Power Elite; 5. Contractors (with Ku-Sup Chin); 6. Workers (with Gregory Scott); 7. The Distribution of Wealth; 8. Government Enforcement and Retention Efforts; 9. Worker Empowerment; 10. The Antisweatshop Movement; Afterword; Notes; Bibliographic Notes; Index
Summary In this study, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Clothing trade -- California -- Los Angeles
Clothing workers -- California -- Los Angeles
Sweatshops -- California -- Los Angeles
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
Clothing trade
Clothing workers
Sweatshops
California -- Los Angeles
Form Electronic book
Author Appelbaum, Richard P
LC no. 99088415
ISBN 9780520925595
0520925599
0585391718
9780585391717
9780520217690
0520217691
9780520225060
0520225066