Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' PerspectiveISBN: 978-1-4051-2637-3
Hardcover
288 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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"A vibrant, innovative and up-to-date book, that recognizes the
diversity of women’s experience of networked global
capitalism and charts both their experience of exploitation and
their strategies of resistance. Threads of Labour provides a
sober but constructive assessment of international
multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve conditions for garment
workers."
Diane Elson, University of Essex
"I would highly recommend Threads of Labour to anyone
wishing 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 contested
geographies 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 action
research in the discipline."
David Featherstone, University of Liverpool
"This book gives valuable insights for decision-makers in
international clothing brands. Read it and learn how garment
workers worldwide are affected by the sub-contracted manufacturing
that characterises this industry."
Dan Rees, Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative
“A politically engaged, detailed and scholarly account of
global garment subcontracting … This book is required reading
for researchers, students, and activists with a serious interest in
global trade and global exploitation.” Network
“An essential read for globalization scholars and
activists alike [and] breaks new ground by presenting a coordinated
research approach for analyzing global supply chains and how power
is constructed-and contested-through the links that bind
them.”
Norma M. Rantisi, Concordia University, Economic
Geography