| 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
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Clothing workers -- California -- Los Angeles
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Sweatshops -- California -- Los Angeles
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
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Clothing trade
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Clothing workers
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Sweatshops
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California -- Los Angeles
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Appelbaum, Richard P
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| LC no. |
99088415 |
| ISBN |
9780520925595 |
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0520925599 |
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0585391718 |
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9780585391717 |
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9780520217690 |
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0520217691 |
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9780520225060 |
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0520225066 |
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