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Making sweatshops : the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry / Ellen Israel Rosen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520928572
  • 0520928571
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD9940.4
Online resources:
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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?
Summary: A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of the phenomenon abroad.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction HD9940.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm56030448\

Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of the phenomenon abroad.

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