Format:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 395 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520225066
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0520217691
Content:
In this study, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-365) and index
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Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Manufacturers; 2. Offshore Production (with Melanie Myers); 3. Retailers; 4. The Power Elite; 5. Contractors (with Ku-Sup Chin); 6. Workers (with Gregory Scott); 7. The Distribution of Wealth; 8. Government Enforcement and Retention Efforts; 9. Worker Empowerment; 10. The Antisweatshop Movement; Afterword; Notes; Bibliographic Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520217690
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Behind the Label : Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry
Language:
English
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