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Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Sweatshops Are Where Hearts Starve
  • Part 1. The Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the United States
  • Chapter 1. What Is a Sweatshop?
  • Appendix 1. Estimating the Number of Sweatshop Workers in the United States in 2000
  • Chapter 2. Memory of Strike and Fire
  • Chapter 3. The Decline of Sweatshops in the United States
  • Chapter 4. The Era of Decency and the Return of the Sweatshop
  • Part 2. Explaining the Rise of the New Sweatshops
  • Chapter 5. Global Capitalism and the Race to the Bottom in the Production of Our Clothes
  • Chapter 6. Retail Chains: The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorillas of the World Trade in Clothing
  • Chapter 7. Firing Guard Dogs and Hiring Foxes
  • Chapter 8. Immigrants and Imports
  • Chapter 9. Union Busting and the Global Runaway Shop
  • Chapter 10. Framing Immigrants, Humiliating Big Shots: Mass Media and the Sweatshop Issue
  • Appendix 2. Details of the Immigrant Blame Analysis
  • Conclusion to Part 2: Producing Sweatshops in the United States
  • Part 3. Movements and Policies
  • Chapter 11. Combating Sweatshops from the Grass Roots
  • Chapter 12. Solidarity North and South: Reframing International Labor Rights
  • Chapter 13. Ascending a Ladder of Effective Antisweatshop Policy
  • Chapter 14: Three Pillars of Decency
  • Personal Epilogue: Hearts Starve
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 10/4/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472030224, 978-0472030224
      ISBN10: 0472030221
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      Labour / income economics Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Sweatshops Are Where Hearts Starve
      • Part 1. The Fall and Rise of Sweatshops in the United States
      • Chapter 1. What Is a Sweatshop?
      • Appendix 1. Estimating the Number of Sweatshop Workers in the United States in 2000
      • Chapter 2. Memory of Strike and Fire
      • Chapter 3. The Decline of Sweatshops in the United States
      • Chapter 4. The Era of Decency and the Return of the Sweatshop
      • Part 2. Explaining the Rise of the New Sweatshops
      • Chapter 5. Global Capitalism and the Race to the Bottom in the Production of Our Clothes
      • Chapter 6. Retail Chains: The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorillas of the World Trade in Clothing
      • Chapter 7. Firing Guard Dogs and Hiring Foxes
      • Chapter 8. Immigrants and Imports
      • Chapter 9. Union Busting and the Global Runaway Shop
      • Chapter 10. Framing Immigrants, Humiliating Big Shots: Mass Media and the Sweatshop Issue
      • Appendix 2. Details of the Immigrant Blame Analysis
      • Conclusion to Part 2: Producing Sweatshops in the United States
      • Part 3. Movements and Policies
      • Chapter 11. Combating Sweatshops from the Grass Roots
      • Chapter 12. Solidarity North and South: Reframing International Labor Rights
      • Chapter 13. Ascending a Ladder of Effective Antisweatshop Policy
      • Chapter 14: Three Pillars of Decency
      • Personal Epilogue: Hearts Starve
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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