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No sweat: fashion, free trade, and the rights of garment workers

Andrew Ross 1997 © Verso
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  • 9781859841723 (paper)
  • 9781859848661 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page 1)
  • Testimony (Lina Rodriguez Meza, page 4)
  • Introduction (Andrew Ross, page 9)
  • The Global Resistance to Sweatshops (John Cavanagh, page 39)
  • From War Zone to Free Trade Zone (Kitty Krupat, page 51)
  • Paying to Lose Our Jobs (Charles Kernaghan, page 79)
  • An Appeal to Walt Disney (National Labor Committee, page 95)
  • The Myth of Nimble Fingers (Elinor Spielberg, page 113)
  • Rat‐Catching: An Interview with Bud Konheim (Sally Singer, page 123)
  • The Economics of the Sweatshop (Michael Piore, page 135)
  • El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops (Julie Su, page 143)
  • Labor, History, and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy (Alan Howard, page 151)
  • New York: Defending the Union Contract (Carl Proper, page 173)
  • "They Want to Kill Us for a Little Money" (Jo‐Ann Mort, page 193)
  • The Structure and Growth of the Los Angeles Garment Industry (Steve Nutter, page 199)
  • The Labor Behind the Label: Clean Clothes Campaigns in Europe (Linda Shaw, page 215)
  • Sweatshopping (Eyal Press, page 221)
  • Fashion as a Culture Industry (McKenzie Wark, page 227)
  • Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization (Paul Smith, page 249)
  • The Problem with Ugly Chic (Robin Givhan, page 263)
  • A New Kind of Rag Trade? (Angela McRobbie, page 275)
  • After the Year of the Sweatshop: Postscript (Andrew Ross, page 291)
  • No Sweat Fashion List, Department of Labor (page 298)
  • Notes (page 299)
  • Contributors (page 310)
  • Photo credits (page 312)
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