The sweatshop regime: labouring bodies, exploitation, and garments made in India

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actor...

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Main Author: Mezzadri, Alessandra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms. The analysis shows the tight correspondence between the physical and social materiality of garment production in India; illustrates the great social differentiation and complex patterns of labour unfreedom at work in the industry; and depicts the sweatshop as a composite 'joint enterprise' against the labouring body, which is inexorably depleted and consumed by garment work, even in the absence of major industrial disasters. By placing labour at the centre of the analysis of processes of development and globalisation, the book critically engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 246 pages)
ISBN:9781316337912
DOI:10.1017/9781316337912

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