Students Against Sweatshops
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Author |
: Liza Featherstone |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2002-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859843026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859843024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Students Against Sweatshops by : Liza Featherstone
This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Author |
: Matthew S. Williams |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 143991821X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781439918210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategizing against Sweatshops by : Matthew S. Williams
For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important.
Author |
: United Students Against Sweatshops |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:959611508 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis United Students Against Sweatshops Sweat-free Campus Campaign Organizing Manual by : United Students Against Sweatshops
Author |
: United Students Against Sweatshops |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:58774375 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Publications Relating to United Students Against Sweatshops by : United Students Against Sweatshops
Author |
: Benjamin Powell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2014-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107029903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107029902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Out of Poverty by : Benjamin Powell
This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Author |
: Melanie Stibick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89074963695 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Campus Mobilizations Against Sweatshops by : Melanie Stibick
Author |
: Sarah Adler-Milstein |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2017-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520966246 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520966244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sewing Hope by : Sarah Adler-Milstein
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry’s usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers’ stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt’s production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry’s sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.
Author |
: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie |
Publisher |
: South End Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0896086380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780896086388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sweatshop Warriors by : Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself. With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).
Author |
: Daniel E. Bender |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2013-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136064029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136064028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sweatshop USA by : Daniel E. Bender
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 ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.
Author |
: Bill Bigelow |
Publisher |
: Rethinking Schools |
Total Pages |
: 411 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780942961287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0942961285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Globalization by : Bill Bigelow
Rethinking Globalization offers an extensive collection of readings and source material on critical global issues.