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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778342503321

Autore

Brooks Ethel Carolyn

Titolo

Unraveling the garment industry [[electronic resource] ] : transnational organizing and women's work / / Ethel C. Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5411-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Social movements, protest, and contention series ; ; v. 27

Disciplina

331.4/25

Soggetti

Anti-sweatshop movement

Protest movements - International cooperation

Women - Developing countries - Social conditions

Women - Developing countries - Economic conditions

Working class women

Social conflict

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsN˃against GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityN˃Ethel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.