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No Sweat Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Ross, Andrew (ed.) Publisher: Verso, New York London Year Published: 1999 First Published: 1997 Pages: 314pp ISBN: 1-85984-172-4 Resource Type: Book
Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Testimony 2. Introduction 3. The Global Resistance to Sweatshops 4. From War Zone to Free Trade Zone 5. Paying to Lose Our Jobs 6. An Appeal to Walt Disney 7. The Myth of Nimble Fingers 8. Rat-Catching: An Interview with Bud Konheim 9. The Economics of the Sweatshop 10. El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops 11. Labour, History and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy 12. New York: Defending the Union Contract 13. 'They Want to Kill Us for a Little Money' 14. The Structure and Growth of the Los Angeles Garment Industry 15. The Labour Behind the Label: Clean Clothes Campaigns in Europe 16. Sweatshopping 17. Fashion as a Culture Industry 18. Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization 19. The Problem with Ugly Chic 20. A New Kind of Rag Trade? 21. After the Year of the Sweatshop: Postscript No Sweat Fashion List Notes
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