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Making sweatshops : the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry
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Making sweatshops : the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry

Author: Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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With a comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. It  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ellen Israel Rosen
ISBN: 0520233360 9780520233362 0520233379 9780520233379
OCLC Number: 48013673
Description: xi, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Free trade, neoclassical economics, and women workers in the global apparel industry --
Roots of the postwar textile and apparel trade: the reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim textile industry --
Emergence of trade protection for the textile and apparel industries --
U.S. textile industry: responses to free trade --
U.S. Apparel industry: responses to capital flight --
1980s: the demise of protection --
Reagan revolution: the Caribbean basin initiative --
Trade liberalization for textiles and apparel: the impact of NAFTA --
Apparel retailing in the United States: from mom-and-pop shop to transnational corporation --
Finally free trade: the future of the global apparel industry --
New global apparel trade: who wins, who loses?
Responsibility: Ellen Israel Rosen.
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"A meticulous historical analysis of one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues." - Stephen Cullenberg

 
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