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Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work

Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work

Brooks, Ethel C.

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Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention, Book 27

Business GeneralSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0816644861
ISBN13: 9780816644865
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Mar 5 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements-against GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York City-Ethel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.

Brooks analyzes a two-pronged problem in consumer boycott campaigns against labor abuse in the garment industry. First, how are we to understand the political necessities of local protest such as the right to unionize against the emphasis placed on consumer boycotts? Second, what and whose agency is privileged or obscured within the symbolic economies and the politics of information deployed by these campaigns? Tying both of these questions together is a commitment to seeing globalization as embedded in the everyday realities of the local.

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