Angela Hale, Jane Wills

Gebundenes Buch

Threads of Labour

Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective

Beschreibung

Threads of Labour draws on a rich body of action research gathered by organisations supporting women workers in ten different garment-producing locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico. This research provides important new empirical information about the global garment industry and also creates a blueprint for conducting worker-oriented action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour. This book combines bottom-up research conducted by women workers' organisations with the latest academic research and debate. It seeks to ensure that workers' voices reach those who are trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions. Finally, it 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 than those strategies deployed in the past.

Autor

Angela Hale is Director of Women Working Worldwide, an NGO based at Manchester Metropolitan University. She previously lectured in sociology at the university and has published many articles relating to women workers. Women Working Worldwide works with a network of trade unions and NGOs supporting the rights of workers in international supply chains producing consumer goods for the world market. Jane Wills is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and a board member of Women Working Worldwide. Her previous publications include Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practices (2000), Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and Union Futures: Building Networked Trade Unionism in the UK (2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9781405126373
• ISBN-10: 140512637X
• Artikelnr.: 22020703

Rezensionen

"Threads of Labour accomplishes its goals and does so in astimulating, clearly written fashion. It will serve both studentsand practitioners seeking insights into organizing efforts aroundthe world." (The Professional Geographer)

"A vibrant, innovative and up-to-date book, that recognizes thediversity of women's experience of networked globalcapitalism and charts both their experience of exploitation andtheir strategies of resistance. Threads of Labour provides asober but constructive assessment of internationalmulti-stakeholder initiatives to improve conditions for garmentworkers."
Diane Elson, University of Essex

"I would highly recommend Threads of Labour to anyonewishing to learn the intricacies of the global

garment industry,and what action can be taken to make change happen."
Red Pepper

"A ground-breaking and original study of the contestedgeographies of women working in the global garments trade.Theoretically, empirically and politically rich and innovative.This is one of the most sustained and exciting examples of actionresearch in the discipline."
David Featherstone, University of Liverpool

"This book gives valuable insights for decision-makers ininternational clothing brands. Read it and learn how garmentworkers worldwide are affected by the sub-contracted manufacturingthat characterises this industry."
Dan Rees, Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative

"A politically engaged, detailed and scholarly account ofglobal garment subcontracting ... This book is required readingfor researchers, students, and activists with a serious interest inglobal trade and global exploitation." Network

"An essential read for globalization scholars andactivists alike [and] breaks new ground by presenting a coordinatedresearch approach for analyzing global supply chains and how poweris constructed-and contested-through the links that bindthem."
Norma M. Rantisi, Concordia University, EconomicGeography