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From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop

Author : Jihye Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498584020
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book From Sweatshop to Fashion Shop written by Jihye Kim and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their arrival in the 1960s, Korean immigrants in Argentina have been massively involved in the garment industry. Nevertheless, despite their decades-long concentration in the same sector, over time they have reshaped their motivations and business styles throughout the twists and turns of the host country’s junctures. Applying rigorous immigrant entrepreneurship theories, yet wary of orthodoxies, Kim examines the intriguing paths which Korean entrepreneurs have taken to develop their businesses in the Argentine garment industry amidst complex, frantically volatile social and economic circumstances, and argues for the application of a new approach that combines existing theories with historically contextual perspectives. This unique case study on Korean immigrant entrepreneurship in Latin America represents a significant milestone in the fields of migration and Korean studies and a substantial contribution to bridging the gap between the North, where such inquiries abound, and the South, where the history, settlement, and current status of Korean immigrants have been notoriously under-examined.

Slaves to Fashion

Author : Robert J. S. Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Fashion written by Robert J. S. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth /div

Sweat Shop Paris

Author : Martena Duss
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449408400
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Sweat Shop Paris written by Martena Duss and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating the Sweat Shop experience into book form, "Sweat Shop Paris" features experts in the Parisian fashion industry offering master classes to share their secrets and techniques. Instead of rewarding dubious labor practices, "Sweat Shop Paris" inspires crafters to make something unique with their own sweat equity and creativity.

Slaves to Fashion

Author : Robert J. S. Ross
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047202566X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Fashion written by Robert J. S. Ross and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate." ---Tom Hayden "Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return; a study of how the media portray them; an analysis of the fortunes of the current anti-sweatshop movement; an anatomy of the global traffic in apparel, in particular the South-South competition that sends wages and working conditions plummeting toward the bottom; and not least, a passionate declaration of faith that humanity can find a way to get its work done without sweatshops. This is engaged sociology at its most stimulating." ---Todd Gitlin ". . . unflinchingly portrays the reemergence of the sweatshop in our dog-eat-dog economy." ---Los Angeles Times Just as Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed uncovered the plight of the working poor in America, Robert J. S. Ross's Slaves to Fashion exposes the dark side of the apparel industry and its exploited workers at home and abroad. It's both a lesson in American business history and a warning about one of the most important issues facing the global capital economy-the reappearance of the sweatshop. Vividly detailing the decline and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry of the twentieth century, Ross explains the new sweatshops as a product of unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union erosion, and exploitation of undocumented workers. Using historical material and economic and social data, the author shows that after a brief thirty-five years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and exploitation. Refreshingly jargon-free but documented in depth, Slaves to Fashion is the only work to estimate the size of the sweatshop problem and to systematically show its impact on apparel workers' wages. It is also unique in its analysis of the budgets and personnel used in enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act. Anyone who is concerned about this urgent social and economic topic and wants to go beyond the headlines should read this important and timely contribution to the rising debate on low-wage factory labor. Robert J.S. Ross is Professor of Sociology, Clark University. He is an expert in the area of sweatshops and globalization. He is an activist academic who travels and lectures extensively and has published numerous related articles.

Fashionopolis

Author : Dana Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0735224013
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Fashionopolis written by Dana Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry--and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it from a bestselling journalist who has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future.ture.

Sweat Shop Paris

Author : Martena Duss
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449420354
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Sweat Shop Paris written by Martena Duss and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweat Shop Book brings the namesake Paris Sweat Shop founded by Martena Duss and Sissi Holleis to North America with more than 50 DIY fashion and home projects, including instructions and more than 200 helpful, inspiring full-color photographs. The first "cafe couture" sewing shop in Paris, the Sweat Shop was named to highlight the questionable nature in which store-bought clothing is sometimes made. Instead of rewarding dubious labor practices, the Sweat Shop and The Sweat Shop Book inspire crafters to make something unique with their own sweat equity and creativity. Crafters meet at the cafe and share ideas while renting equipment by the hour. In addition, classes teach novices how to sew, knit, crochet, and much more. Translating the Sweat Shop experience into book form, The Sweat Shop Book features experts in the Parisian fashion industry as they offer "master classes" to share their secrets and techniques. With help from experts such as Madame Vava Dudu, who creates looks for Lady Gaga, and fashion stylist Sonia Rykiel, crafters of every skill level will learn how to mend a seam, make a dress from a pattern, and design and create something from scratch inside The Sweat Shop Book. Additionally, the book includes recipes for cafe fare, Duss and Holleis's Paris picks, and a French and English glossary. Bring Paris's couturiers home, learn secrets from the pros, and rediscover the joy of handmade, homemade fashion with The Sweat Shop Book.

Clean Clothes

Author : Liesbeth Sluiter
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Clean Clothes written by Liesbeth Sluiter and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively survey of Fair Trade and the challenges facing it, written by some of the leading lights in the Fair Trade movement.

Sewing Hope

Author : Sarah Adler-Milstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520966244
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sewing Hope written by Sarah Adler-Milstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry’s usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers’ stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt’s production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry’s sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.

No Sweat

Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859841723
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book No Sweat written by Andrew Ross and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997-09-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In hard-hitting words and pictures, No Sweat surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop." -- Book Jacket.

Sweatshop USA

Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136064028
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Sweatshop USA written by Daniel E. Bender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.

Sweatshop

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Sweatshop written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Sweatshop A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor, illegal working conditions. The manual workers are poorly paid, work long hours, and experience poor working conditions. Some illegal working conditions include poor ventilation, little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting, or uncomfortably/dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Workers in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of sweatshop workers and may be forced by employers to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or providing health benefits. The Fair Labor Association's "2006 Annual Public Report" inspected factories for FLA compliance in 18 countries including Bangladesh, El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, China, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and the US. The U.S. Department of Labor's "2015 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor" found that "18 countries did not meet the International Labour Organization's recommendation for an adequate number of inspectors." How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Sweatshop Chapter 2: Labour law Chapter 3: No Sweat (organisation) Chapter 4: Labor rights Chapter 5: Charles Kernaghan Chapter 6: Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights Chapter 7: International Labor Rights Forum Chapter 8: Fair Labor Association Chapter 9: Clean Clothes Campaign Chapter 10: Textile industry in Bangladesh Chapter 11: Anti-sweatshop movement Chapter 12: Child labour in Bangladesh Chapter 13: Sweatshop-free Chapter 14: Nike sweatshops Chapter 15: Fair Wear Foundation Chapter 16: Alta Gracia Apparel Chapter 17: Clothing industry Chapter 18: Export-oriented employment Chapter 19: Ethical Trading Initiative Chapter 20: National Garment Workers Federation Chapter 21: Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (II) Answering the public top questions about sweatshop. (III) Real world examples for the usage of sweatshop in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Sweatshop.

Existence of Sweatshops in America

Author : Caroline Mutuku
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668724547
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Existence of Sweatshops in America written by Caroline Mutuku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: Sweatshops are regarded to as low-wage industries, which are concerned with cloth production and flower processing and, they are found in the principal cities. These industries are usually characterized by workforce exploitation, unsafe working conditions and arbitrary discipline. In addition, sweatshops restrict their workers membership to labor unions. In regard to the United States Department of labor, sweatshops are those garment factories, which violate two or more labor laws. In general, sweatshops are widespread in the world, especially in highly industrialized countries, which require intensive labor in production. However, it is worth noting that they are also found in some developing countries. Globally, most sweatshops are found in China, Latin America and Asia. In the United States, sweatshops have been identified to be scattered in some of the largest cities such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Historically, sweatshops are believed to have emerged during the Industrial Revolution, in which middlemen introduced a subcontracting system to earn profit through exploiting workers. There was a characteristic margin between the total amount of the contract and the net amount paid to workers. In this system, workers worked under unsanitary conditions for excessive hours and yet they received low wages: thus, the characteristic marginal returns were said to be ‘sweated’. Recently, the issue of sweatshops, in the U.S emerged in 1995 when labor officials discovered slave-sweatshops in Los Angeles and Honduras, in which immigrants and young girls were forced to work for excessive hours, under unsanitary conditions. Consequently, Wal-Mart, Gap and Nike clothing industries were charged for using sweatshop labor. These incidences exposed the exploitation of workers, in the sweatshops leading an unprecedented outcry from the public. Therefore, this research will give a comprehensive overview of the sweatshops issue.

Sweatshop Warriors

Author : Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896086388
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Sweatshop Warriors written by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself. With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).

Making Sweatshops

Author : Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520233379
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Making Sweatshops written by Ellen Israel Rosen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry investigates the problems of domestic apparel workers, noting the influence of trade policy and global economics to reveal how current processes are creating extreme levels of poverty. Simultaneous. (Social Science)

Clothing Poverty

Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783600691
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Clothing Poverty written by Andrew Brooks and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An interesting and important account.’ Daily Telegraph Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London’s vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop

Author : Rebecca Prentice
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249399
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Unmaking the Global Sweatshop written by Rebecca Prentice and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.

Students Against Sweatshops

Author : Liza Featherstone
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843024
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Students Against Sweatshops written by Liza Featherstone and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.