Sweatshop USA The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective

Name: Sweatshop USA The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective
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ISBN: 9780415935616

ISBN-10: 041593561X

ISBN-13: 9780415935616

Edition: 2003

Authors: Daniel E. Bender, Richard A. Greenwald, Daniel J. Walkowitz

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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…

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List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Daniel E. Bender is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Urban History, University of Toronto. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor and coeditor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective .



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction: Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Global and Historical Perspective




"A Foreign Method of Working": Racial Degeneration, Gender Disorder, and the Sweatshop Danger in America




Fashion, Flexible Specialization, and the Sweatshop: A Historical Problem




Bringing Sweatshops into the Museum




Labor, Liberals, and Sweatshops




"An Industry on Wheels": The Migration of Pennsylvania's Garment Factories




Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late- Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City




Offshore Production




Globalization and Worker Organization in New York City's Garment Industry




Sweatshop Feminism: Italian Women's Political Culture in New York City's Needle Trades, 1890-1919




Consumers of the World Unite!: Campaigns Against Sweating, Past and Present




The Rise of the Second Antisweatshop Movement




Students Against Sweatshops: A History




The Ideal Sweatshop?: Gender and Transnational Protest



Contributor Biographies


Index