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Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops
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- Creator
- Robert J. S. Ross
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 047202566X, 6612594055, 9780472025664, 0472030221, 1282594052, 9781282594050, 9780472109418, 9780472030224, 0472109413, 9786612594052
- OCLC
- ocm54529081, ocn613192830, on1196823134
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-376) and index.
- Introduction : sweatshops are where hearts starve -- Ch. 1. What is a sweatshop? -- App. 1. Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 2000 -- Ch. 2. Memory of strike and fire -- Ch. 3. The decline of sweatshops in the United States -- Ch. 4. The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop -- Ch. 5. Global capitalism and the race to the bottom in the production of our clothes -- Ch. 6. Retail chains : the eight-hundred-pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing -- Ch. 7. Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes -- Ch. 8. Immigrants and imports -- Ch. 9. Union busting and the global runaway shop -- Ch. 10. Framing immigrants, humiliating big shots : mass media and the sweatshop issue -- App. 2. Details of the immigrant blame analysis -- Ch. 11. Combating sweatshops from the grass roots -- Ch. 12. Solidarity north and south : reframing international labor rights -- Ch. 13. Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy -- Ch. 14. Three pillars of decency -- Personal epilogue : hearts starve