Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
"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...
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A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth
Introduction : sweatshops are where hearts starve1Ch. 1What is a sweatshop?9App. 1Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the United States in 200042Ch. 2Memory of strike and fire52Ch. 3The decline of sweatshops in the United States72Ch. 4The era of decency and the return of the sweatshop86Ch. 5Global capitalism and the race to the bottom in the production of our clothes103Ch. 6Retail chains : the eight-hundred-pound gorillas of the world trade in clothing125Ch. 7Firing guard dogs and hiring foxes147Ch. 8Immigrants and imports172Ch. 9Union busting and the global runaway shop187Ch. 10Framing immigrants, humiliating big shots : mass media and the sweatshop issue206App. 2Details of the immigrant blame analysis239Ch. 11Combating sweatshops from the grass roots249Ch. 12Solidarity north and south : reframing international labor rights284Ch. 13Ascending a ladder of effective antisweatshop policy309Ch. 14Three pillars of decency322Personal epilogue : hearts starve335
