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...