Students Against Sweatshops
Download Students Against Sweatshops full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Students Against Sweatshops ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
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 |
: 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 |
: 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.
Author |
: Rebecca Prentice |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2017-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812249392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812249399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unmaking the Global Sweatshop by : Rebecca Prentice
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
Author |
: Guillermo C. Jimenez |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:959238031 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Good Corporation, Bad Corporation by : Guillermo C. Jimenez
"This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study"--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Bernard Weinstein |
Publisher |
: Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783743568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783743565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jewish Unions in America by : Bernard Weinstein
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Author |
: Greg Albo Albo |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2010-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458775405 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458775402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis In and Out of Crisis by : Greg Albo Albo
In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation as a check on finance capital. In addition, it deftly illuminates how the era of neoliberal free markets has been, in practice, under-girded by state intervention on a massive scale. Arguing for genuinely transformative alternatives to capitalism, and discussing how to build the collective capacity to realize these goals, this record is a critique of the crisis and an indispensable springboard for a renewed political left.