Making sweatshops : the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry / Ellen Israel Rosen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 336 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520928572
- 0520928571
- HD9940.4
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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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