Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsÑagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityÑEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 State Meets Capital: The Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class -- 2 Marching from the Village: Women’s Struggles between Work and Family -- 3 The Social Body, the Art of Discipline and Resistance -- 4 Becoming...

This Article uses an ethnographic case study to challenge the conventional wisdom in international labor law that formality – including formal contracts and special migration programs – always produces better jobs for transnational migrant workers than informality. Interviews with informal...