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Record Nr.

UNISA996205341503316

Titolo

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

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

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