Threads
Subtitle: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 3, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780226113722
First sentence: In the United States in the late 1990s and the early years of the twenty-first century, sweatshops were national news.
Description: Examines how the transnational economics of the apparel industry allow firms to relocate or subcontract their work anywhere in the world, making it harder for garment workerss in the United States or any other country to demand fair pay and humane working conditions. Shows not only how international trade affects local communities but also how workers can organize in this new environment to more effectively demand better treatment from their distant corporate employers. [back cover].