Monitoring Sweatshops
Monitoring Sweatshops

Author: Jill Esbenshade

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781439900642

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The first full-scale overview of sweatshop monitoring.

American Worker Project
American Worker Project

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Behind the Label
Behind the Label

Author: Edna Bonacich

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-06-28

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0520225066

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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.

Mexican and Central American L.A. Garment Workers
Mexican and Central American L.A. Garment Workers

Author: Rebecca Budde

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9783825883973

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Studying the urban agglomeration of Los Angeles County is on the one hand very interesting, exciting, as there is such a wide variety of people living there. This not only concerning ethnic origins but also in view of social classes, (haves and have nots), sub cultures, 'Lebenswelten' and milieus. On the other hand, studying L.A. empirically, i.e. living, working and more than anything else talking to people while observing them, gives an insight into how a society so full of discrepancies works and operates. "To live from day to day. That is life in L.A." Mirna, Los Angeles Garment Worker from Guatemala. Undocumented migration to the U.S. and the U.S.-American textile and garment industry are examples that demonstrate well the interconnectedness of international economic interests, policy-making and migration flows.