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Author Brooks, Ethel Carolyn.

Title Unraveling the garment industry : transnational organizing and women's work / Ethel C. Brooks.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.425 B791u 2007    ---  Available
Description xxxiii, 243 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Series Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 27
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.
Contents List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Children, schools, and labored questions -- Organizing in times of (post)war -- The ideal of transnational organizing -- Disciplining bodies -- Women first? -- Living proof -- Epilogue: gender and the work of branding -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Anti-sweatshop movement.
Protest movements -- International cooperation.
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
Working class women.
Social conflict.
ISBN 0816644861 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816644865 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816644858 (hc : alk. paper)
0816644853 (hc : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2496136
YDXCP 2496138
AU@ 000040933989
NZ1 11034391

 
    
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