Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' PerspectiveISBN: 978-1-4051-2638-0
Paperback
288 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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.