Making sweatshops: the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry
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Main Author: Rosen, Ellen Israel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press c2002
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-309) and index
Free trade, neoclassical economics, and women workers in the global apparel industry -- - Roots of the postwar textile and apparel trade: the reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim textile industry -- - Emergence of trade protection for the textile and apparel industries -- - U.S. textile industry: responses to free trade -- - U.S. Apparel industry: responses to capital flight -- - 1980s: the demise of protection -- - Reagan revolution: the Caribbean basin initiative -- - Trade liberalization for textiles and apparel: the impact of NAFTA -- - Apparel retailing in the United States: from mom-and-pop shop to transnational corporation -- - Finally free trade: the future of the global apparel industry -- - New global apparel trade: who wins, who loses?
A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of the phenomenon abroad
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 336 p.)
ISBN:0520928571
1597347302
9780520928572
9781597347303

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