03431nam 2200673Ia 450 99620534150331620230617005454.01-280-28633-497866102863310-470-76143-11-4051-5307-5(CKB)1000000000341912(EBL)243573(OCoLC)475964587(SSID)ssj0000259051(PQKBManifestationID)11194659(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000259051(PQKBWorkID)10272807(PQKB)10695436(MiAaPQ)EBC243573(MiAaPQ)EBC4523942(EXLCZ)99100000000034191220050302d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThreads of labour[electronic resource] garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspective /edited by Angela Hale and Jane WillsMalden, Mass. ;Oxford Blackwell20051 online resource (290 p.)Antipode book series"Women Working Worldwide."1-4051-2638-8 1-4051-2637-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-253) and index.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 Workers7 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; IndexThreads 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 dirAntipode book series.Women clothing workersEconomic conditionsClothing tradeSubcontractingClothing workersLabor unionsEmployee rightsWomen clothing workersEconomic conditions.Clothing tradeSubcontracting.Clothing workersLabor unions.Employee rights.331.0487331.7/687Hale Angela855355Wills Jane573419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996205341503316Threads of labour1909559UNISA