Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements--against GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York City--Ethel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.
Brooks analyzes a two-pronged problem in consumer...
Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define t...
Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements--against GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York City--Ethel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.
Brooks analyzes a two-pronged problem in consumer...
Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define t...
Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens' rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations--different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change--have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs.
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Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens' rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Commun...
Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens' rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations--different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change--have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs.
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Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens' rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Commun...
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the country's history.
Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth century to the present in El Salvador, Paul D. Almeida fully chronicles one of the largest and most successful campaigns against globalization and privatization in the Americas. Drawing on original protest data from newspapers and other archival sources, Almeida makes an...
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious actio...
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious action in El Salvador during critical eras in the country's history.
Providing a compelling analysis of the massive waves of protests from the early twentieth century to the present in El Salvador, Paul D. Almeida fully chronicles one of the largest and most successful campaigns against globalization and privatization in the Americas. Drawing on original protest data from newspapers and other archival sources, Almeida makes an...
One of the first longitudinal studies of collective resistance in the developing world, Waves of Protest examines large-scale contentious actio...
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social move...
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants. Featuring case studies that range widely--from Jewish resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Poland to antigay Christian movements in the United States to online white supremacy groups--the essays show how participants set aside issues of personal identity in order to merge...
Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social move...
