Sweatshop USA : The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415935616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str.

Daniel Bender;Daniel Bender; Richard E. Bender

Opis

This is a collection of work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines the changing understanding of the roots and problems with the sweatshop as well as exploring how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labour, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labour 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.

Recenzje

"Lest we be consigned to forget the past once again, these wonderful essays both remind us there is a history to the sweatshop and the struggles against it, and there are lessons for present and future struggles to be learned from that history." -- From the foreword by Daniel J. Walkowitz, New York University
"There is much nonsense written about sweatshops. Sophisticated economists say that sweatshops are good. Passive governments deny their existence. Sweatshop USA is an antidote to such callousness. Read this book and understand the history, causes and struggles against sweatshops. And when you are finished reading, join the fight to abolish sweatshops." -- Bruce Raynor President, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)
"Sweatshop USA is a must read for anyone interested in the political, economic, and social implications of the global sweatshop system, as well as anyone interested in the history of sweatshops in the USA
." -- History in Review
"This ambitious and finely crafted collection of essays...significantly enriches our understanding of both the first and second anti-sweatshop movements and invites activists to put this knowledge to work.
." -- American Historical Review
"Those interested in sweatshops should add Sweatshop USA to their reading lists. The editors have put together an excellent collection of essays that can be helpful in assessing strategies for improving labor standards and working conditions." -- Marsha Dickson, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.