Students Against Sweatshops
Subtitle: The Making of a Movement
Contributors: United (Editor)
Publisher: Verso
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781859843024
Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Labour economics; Politics/International Relations; Social Conditions Of Labor; Social Movements; Political Science; Education / Teaching; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Students & Student Life; Current Affairs; American
First sentence: Fourteen-year-olds, from Bangladesh to the Mexican maquila, working fourteen-hour days in factories that reek of toxic fumes; young women supporting families on some twenty cents an hour; factory managers who forbid sick workers time off to go to the doctor; bosses in El Monte, California and elsewhere who have, quite literally, turned factories into prisons, forcibly detaining workers in sweatshops surrounded by barbed wire - more and more North Americans are familiar with such images, and the brutality of the garment industry has even made it to prime-time television.