Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 336 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520233360
,
0520233379
,
0520928571
,
1597347302
,
9780520233362
,
9780520233379
,
9780520928572
,
9781597347303
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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?
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rosen, Ellen Israel Making sweatshops Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002
Sprache:
Englisch
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