Sweatshop USA

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-93561-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Daniel E.

Greenwald, Richard A.

Fachgebiete

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

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.