Sweatshop USA

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-93560-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Daniel E.

Greenwald, Richard A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Walkowitz, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Daniel J. Walkowitz: Foreword
Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald: Introduction: Sweatshop U.S.A: The American Sweatshop in Global and Historical Perspective
Part I: "Producing the Sweatshop
Daniel E. Bender: 'A Foreign Method of Working': Racial Degeneration, Gender Disorder, and Defining the Sweatshop Danger in America
Nancy L. Green: Fashion, Flexible Specialization and the Sweatshop: A Historical Problem
Peter Liebhold and Harry R. Rubenstein: Bringing Sweatshops into the Museum
Part II. Sweatshop Migrations
Richard A. Greenwald: The Eye of the Storm: Labor, the State and Sweatshops
Kenneth C. Wolensky: "An Industry on Wheels:" The Migration of Pennsylvania's Garment Factories
Xiaolan Bao: Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late 20th Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City
Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum et. al., Offshore Production
Immanuel Ness: Sweatshop Labor and Worker Organizing in New York City's Garment Industry
Part III. Sweatshop Resistance
Jennifer Guglielmo: Sweatshop Feminism: Italian Women's Political Culture in New York City's Needle Trades, 1890-1919
Eileen Boris: Consumers of the World Unite! Campaigns Against Sweating, Past and Present
Andrew Ross: The Rise of the Second Anti-Sweatshop Movement
Liza Featherstone: Students Against Sweatshops: A History
Ethel Brooks: The Ideal Sweatshop? Gender and Transnational Protest

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel E. Bender is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo (Canada). Richard A. Greenwald is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.