Unraveling the garment industry [[electronic resource] ] : transnational organizing and women's work / / Ethel C. Brooks
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| Autore: |
Brooks Ethel Carolyn
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| Titolo: |
Unraveling the garment industry [[electronic resource] ] : transnational organizing and women's work / / Ethel C. Brooks
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.4/25 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anti-sweatshop movement |
| Protest movements - International cooperation | |
| Women - Developing countries - Social conditions | |
| Women - Developing countries - Economic conditions | |
| Working class women | |
| Social conflict | |
| 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 movementsÑagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityÑEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unraveling the garment industry |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-5411-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778342503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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