Sweatshop USA : the American sweatshop in historical and global perspective / Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald, editors.

Other author Bender, Daniel E.
Other author Greenwald, Richard A.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2003.
Descriptionxii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Sweatshops--United States. --History.

Contents "A foreign method of working": racial degeneration, gender disorder, and the sweatshop danger in America / Daniel E. Bender -- Fashion, flexible specialization, and the sweatshop: a historical problem / Nancy L. Green -- Bringing sweatshops into the museum / Peter Liebhold and Harry R. Rubenstein -- Labor, liberals, and sweatshops / Richard A. Greenwald -- "An industry on wheels": the migration of Pennsylvania's garment factories / Kenneth C. Wolensky -- Sweatshops in sunset park: a variation of the late-twentieth-century Chinese garment shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao -- Offshore production / Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum, et al. -- Globalization and worker organization in New York City's garment industry / Immanuel Ness -- Sweatshop feminism: Italian women's political culture in New York City's needle trades, 1890-1919 / Jennifer Guglielmo -- Consumers of the world unite!: Campaigns against sweating, past and present / Eileen Boris -- The rise of the second antisweatshop movement / Andrew Ross -- Students against sweatshops: a history / Liza Featherstone -- The ideal sweatshop?: Gender and transnational protest / Ethel Brooks.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographial references and index.
LCCN 2003009696
ISBN0415935601 (alk. paper)
ISBN041593561X (pbk. : alk. paper)