Instabilities and Fronts in Extended Systems / Pierre Collet, Jean-Pierre Eckmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA990001105200403321
• Autore: Collet, Pierre
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton [N.J.] : Cambridge University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0-691-08568-4
• Disciplina: 513
• Locazione: FI1
• Collocazione: 11-258F
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Princeton Series in Physics

Threads of labour [[electronic resource] ] : garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective / / edited by Angela Hale and Jane Wills

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143296903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, Mass. ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-28633-4; 9786610286331; 0-470-76143-1; 1-4051-5307-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: Antipode book series
• Altri autori (Persone): HaleAngela; WillsJane
• Disciplina: 331.0487; 331.7/687
• Soggetti: Women clothing workers - Economic conditions; Clothing trade - Subcontracting; Clothing workers - Labor unions; Employee rights; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Women Working Worldwide."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Threads of Labour; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry; 2 The Changing Face of the Global Garment Industry; 3 Organising and Networking in Support of Garment Workers: Why We Researched Subcontracting Chains; 4 Action Research: Tracing the Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry; 5 Unravelling the Web: Supply Chains and Workers' Lives in the Garment Industry; 6 Coming Undone: The Implications of Garment Industry Subcontracting for UK Workers; 7 The Impact of Full-Package Production on Mexico's Blue Jean Capital8 Defending Workers' Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces; 9 The Phase-Out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from the Perspective of Workers; 10 Conclusion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane dir