Behind the label : inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry

Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum; with Ku-Sup Chin ... [et al.]

In this study, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production

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Year of publication:	c2000
Authors:	Bonacich, Edna
Other Persons:	Appelbaum, Richard P. (contributor)
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xviii, 395 p) ill 24 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-365) and index Preliminaries; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Manufacturers; 2. Offshore Production (with Melanie Myers); 3. Retailers; 4. The Power Elite; 5. Contractors (with Ku-Sup Chin); 6. Workers (with Gregory Scott); 7. The Distribution of Wealth; 8. Government Enforcement and Retention Efforts; 9. Worker Empowerment; 10. The Antisweatshop Movement; Afterword; Notes; Bibliographic Notes; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-520-22506-6 ; 0-520-21769-1 ; 978-0-520-21769-0
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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