| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 243 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 27 |
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Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 27.
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| Contents |
List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Children, schools, and labored questions -- Organizing in times of (post)war -- The ideal of transnational organizing -- Disciplining bodies -- Women first? -- Living proof -- Epilogue: gender and the work of branding -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Anti-sweatshop movement.
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Protest movements -- International cooperation
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
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Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions
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Working class women.
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Social conflict.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Anti-sweatshop movement
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Protest movements -- International cooperation
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Social conflict
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Social conditions
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Working class women
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816654116 |
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0816654115 |
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