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Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy

Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy

Lichtenstein, Nelson
Appelbaum, Richard P.

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1501700030
ISBN13: 9781501700033
Publisher: Ilr Pr
Published: Jun 14 2016
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.

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