Making Sweatshops
Subtitle: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780520233379
Subjects: Development economics; Globalization; Labour economics; Manufacturing industries; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; USA; Industries - Textile Industry; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Clothing trade; 20th century; History; United States; Women clothing workers
First sentence: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City in 1911 called attention to the sweatshop conditions under which women worked stitching clothes.
Description: The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice--especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world.