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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 movementsNĖƒagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityNĖƒEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.