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Author: Rebecca Prentice
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-08-25
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0812249399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
Author: Andrew Ross
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1997-09-17
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781859841723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In hard-hitting words and pictures, No Sweat surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop." -- Book Jacket.
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 231
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is Sweatshop A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor, illegal working conditions. The manual workers are poorly paid, work long hours, and experience poor working conditions. Some illegal working conditions include poor ventilation, little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting, or uncomfortably/dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Workers in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of sweatshop workers and may be forced by employers to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or providing health benefits. The Fair Labor Association's "2006 Annual Public Report" inspected factories for FLA compliance in 18 countries including Bangladesh, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, China, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and the US. The U.S. Department of Labor's "2015 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor" found that "18 countries did not meet the International Labour Organization's recommendation for an adequate number of inspectors." How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Sweatshop Chapter 2: Labour law Chapter 3: No Sweat (organisation) Chapter 4: Labor rights Chapter 5: Charles Kernaghan Chapter 6: Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights Chapter 7: International Labor Rights Forum Chapter 8: Fair Labor Association Chapter 9: Clean Clothes Campaign Chapter 10: Textile industry in Bangladesh Chapter 11: Anti-sweatshop movement Chapter 12: Child labour in Bangladesh Chapter 13: Sweatshop-free Chapter 14: Nike sweatshops Chapter 15: Fair Wear Foundation Chapter 16: Alta Gracia Apparel Chapter 17: Clothing industry Chapter 18: Export-oriented employment Chapter 19: Ethical Trading Initiative Chapter 20: National Garment Workers Federation Chapter 21: Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (II) Answering the public top questions about sweatshop. (III) Real world examples for the usage of sweatshop in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Sweatshop.
Author: Liesbeth Sluiter
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatic story of the worldwide struggle to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers.
Author: Mirjam Müller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0197767206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. This book develops an intersectional feminist critique of the working conditions in sweatshops by analysing the role of gender, race, and migration status in bringing about and justifying the exploitation of workers on factory floors. Based on this analysis, the book argues that sweatshop workers are structurally vulnerable to exploitation in virtue of their position as gendered, racialized, and migrant workers within global supply chains. While this exploitation benefits powerful actors along global supply chains, it also creates spaces of resistance and structural transformation.
Author: Ellen Rosen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-12-03
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780520928572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice—especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world. Rosen looks closely at the role trade policy has played in globalization in this industry. She traces the history of current policies toward the textile and apparel trade to cold war politics and the reconstruction of the Pacific Rim economies after World War II. Her narrative takes us through the rise of protectionism and the subsequent dismantling of trade protection during the Reagan era to the passage of NAFTA and the continued push for trade accords through the WTO. Going beyond purely economic factors, this valuable study elaborates the full historical and political context in which the globalization of textiles and apparel has taken place. Rosen takes a critical look at the promises of prosperity, both in the U.S. and in developing countries, made by advocates for the global expansion of these industries. She offers evidence to suggest that this process may inevitably create new and more extreme forms of poverty.
Author: Alessandra Mezzadri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107116961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Analyses the politics of production and labour control characterizing the Indian readymade garment industry since its entry into the global arena"--
Author: Robert J. S. Ross
Publisher:
Published: 2004-10-04
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth /div
Author: Jill Esbenshade
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781439900642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-scale overview of sweatshop monitoring.
Author: Pamela Varley
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 612
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the issue of the responsibility of U.S. corporations for the working conditions in factories in developing countries that make their merchandise. Examines the campaign in the U.S. to improve working conditions in these factories, and considers the nature and range of labour problems which need to be dealt with. Includes case studies of Guatemala, El Salvador and Indonesia which discuss the experiences of various companies (e.g. Nike, Reebok, Gap, Liz Claibourne, Starbucks) as well brief studies of seven other countries. Presents and analyses 46 codes of conducts, and looks in particular at programmes designed to eliminate child labour.
