{"product_id":"unmaking-the-global-sweatshop-9780812249392","title":"Unmaking the Global Sweatshop","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-being\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnmaking the Global Sweatshop\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the work of leading anthropologists an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] welcome contribution to debates on how to achieve decent working \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e living conditions in the current system of transnational production. The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together leading anthropologists and scholars from across the social sciences who are renowned for their research on workers’ roles in the global garment industry...[T]his book will interest academics, activists and other practitioners in the garment industry who seek fresh ideas in thinking about the way forward.\" * South Asia: Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnmaking the Global Sweatshop \u003c\/i\u003eoffers important insights on the issue of health and safety in the garments industry. The book successfully shows the need for a broader understanding of the issue of health and safety beyond the crucial but insufficient focus on building safety and design. The book shows the need to go beyond focusing only on the physical aspects of health and safety in the workplace into a broader understanding of mental and physical health and well-being in the workplace and beyond...In addition to researchers and students working on labour issues, the book can be useful for trade unionists, NGOs and labour activists dealing with the issue of labour in GVCs.\" * Competition \u0026amp; Change *\u003cbr\u003e\"A first-rate and necessary book. In compiling the analyses of northern and southern scholars across the social sciences, \u003ci\u003eUnmaking the Global Sweatshop\u003c\/i\u003e provides original insights into the global supply chain and innovative approaches to general questions of power relationships and workers' health and safety writ large.\" * Lance A. Compa, Cornell University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Using the unifying theme of health and safety, the editors open a wide-ranging study of power relations in the supply-chain system and on factory floors. Each chapter brings a unique perspective to these issues and provokes new ways of thinking about them.\" * Susan L. Kang, City University of New York *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405730980183,"sku":"9780812249392","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249392.jpg?v=1730493427","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unmaking-the-global-sweatshop-9780812249392","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}