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Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment
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"Tells the story of how the student anti-sweatshop movement on US college campuses was able to coordinate a massive change in strategy in response to new labor tactics undertaken by target garment ...
"Tells the story of how the student anti-sweatshop movement on US college campuses was able to coordinate a massive change in strategy in response to new labor tactics undertaken by target garment industry corporations. Demonstrates that a decentralized movement can coordinate in response to changing opportunities"--
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- Creator
- Matthew S. Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xix, 267 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781439918234, 1439918236, 143991821X, 9781439918210, 1439918228, 9781439918227
- OCLC
- on1096223553, on1110129416
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface: The continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism -- Theorizing social movement strategy -- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops -- Higher education as a political opportunity structure -- The origins of United Students Against Sweatshops -- USAS's campus-level strategy -- USAS's ideology of worker empowerment -- The organization of USAS -- The brands strike back : corporate social responsibility and the creation of the Fair Labor Association -- The creation of the Worker Rights Consortium -- Embedded autonomy and the fire alarm model : the organization and monitoring practices of the WRC -- Transnational solidarity campaigns -- The designated suppliers program -- Sweatfree communities