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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
    Also in:
    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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