Author: Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: industry, apparel, globalization, sweatshops, making
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2002-12-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520233379
ISBN-13: 9780520233379

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America’s domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic devel

Author: Michael H. Belzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: trucking, deregulation, losers, winners, wheels, sweatshops
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-08-24
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195128869
ISBN-13: 9780195128864

Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America’s interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America’s long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time durin

Author: Theodore H. Moran
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: developing, nations, globalization, investment, foreign, direct, sweatshops
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815706154
ISBN-13: 9780815706151

In Beyond Sweatshops, Theodore Moran examines the impact of FDI in manufacturing on growth and welfare in developing countries, and explores how host governments can take advantage of the contributions of foreign investment while avoiding the hazards to lower-skilled workers. The first part of the book examines multilateral proposals designed to place a floor under the treatment of workers around the world, contrasting a WTO-based system to enforce labor standards with "voluntary" arrangements, including corporate codes of conduct, certification organizations, and "sweatshop free" labeling. It

Author: Jill Esbenshade
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: apparel, industry, global, consumers, sweatshops, workers, monitoring
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1592132561
ISBN-13: 9781592132560

Monitoring Sweatshops offers the first comprehensive assessment of efforts to address and improve conditions in garment factories. Jill Esbenshade describes the government’s efforts to persuade retailers and clothing companies to participate in private monitoring programs. She shows the different approaches to monitoring that firms have taken, and the variety of private monitors employed, from large accounting companies to local non-profits. Esbenshade also shows how the efforts of the anti-sweatshop movement have forced companies to employ monitors overseas as well. When monitoring is u

Author: Liza Featherstone United Students Against Sweatsh
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: movement, making, sweatshops, students
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1859843026
ISBN-13: 9781859843024

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) heads a wave of anti-sweatshop organizing that has reached over two hundred American college campuses in the past three years. From the Northeast to the Southwest, at public and private, large and small universities, students have one demand: clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe and fair working conditions. This short, punchy, yet sharply analytic book, written by USAS activists and an expert journalist, provides a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals.