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  Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective
  Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective
 
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Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers’ support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.
*Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers’ support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.
*Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
*Ensures that workers’ voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.
*Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the global garment industry.
*Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.
 
Features
  • Published Year: 2006
    Series Title: Antipode Book Series
    Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
    Medium: Paperback
    Weight: 16.00 oz.
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    Subject: Geography/Human Geography
    Market: students of human geography, international relations, development studies, global political economy, globalization, labour studies, women’s studies and business studies; academics in these fields; activists in labour and community organisations; policy makers in international labour, regulation and corporate social responsibility; supporters of the global justice movement


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