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No Sweat Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers

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ISBN-10: 1859841724

ISBN-13: 9781859841723

Edition: 1997

Authors: Andrew Ross

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In hard-hitting words and pictures, No Sweat tells the story of the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 9/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694

Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including No-Collar, Fast Boat to China, No Respect, Strange Weather, and, from NYU Press, Anti-Americanism and Real Love.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Testimony
Introduction
The Global Resistance to Sweatshops
From War Zone to Free Trade Zone
Paying to Lose Our Jobs
An Appeal to Walt Disney
The Myth of Nimble Fingers
Rat-Catching: An Interview with Bud Konheim
The Economics of the Sweatshop
El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops
Labor, History, and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy
New York: Defending the Union Contract
"They Want to Kill Us for a Little Money"
The Structure and Growth of the Los Angeles Garment Industry
The Labor Behind the Label: Clean Clothes Campaigns in Europe
Sweatshopping
Fashion as a Culture Industry
Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization
The Problem with Ugly Chic
A New Kind of Rag Trade?
After the Year of the Sweatshop: Postscript
No Sweat Fashion List, Department of Labor
Notes
Contributors
Photo credits