Hale / Wills Threads of Labour

Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5557-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by anetwork of garment workers' support organizations and makes senseof global supply chains from the bottom up.
* Presents new empirical research by a network of garmentworkers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia,Europe and Mexico.
* Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated actionresearch in order to better understand and resist the negativeimpact of globalization on labour.
* Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already tryingto reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.
* Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop newforms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in theglobal garment industry.
* Bridges the gap between activist and academic research,improving the conversation between these two groups.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hale, Angela

Wills, Jane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
List of Tables.
List of Boxes.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
1 Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry (JaneWills with Angela Hale).
2 The Changing Face of the Global Garment Industry (JenniferHurley with Doug Miller).
3 Organising and Networking in Support of Garment Workers(Angela Hale).
4 Action Research. Tracing the Threads of Labour in the GlobalGarment Industry (Jane Wills with Jennifer Hurley).
5 Unravelling the Web. Supply Chains and Workers' Lives in theGarment Industry (Jennifer Hurley).
6 Coming Undone. The Implications of Garment IndustrySubcontracting for UK Workers (Camille Warren).
7 The Impact of Full-package Production in Mexico's Blue JeanCapital (Lynda Yanz with Bob Jeffcott).
8 Defending Workers' Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces(Rohini Hensman, Women Working Worldwide).
9 The Phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from thePerspective of Workers (Angela Hale with Maggie Burns).
10 Conclusion (Angela Hale with Jane Will).
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Hale is Director of Women Working Worldwide, an NGObased at Manchester Metropolitan University. She previouslylectured in sociology at the university and has published manyarticles relating to women workers. Women Working Worldwide workswith a network of trade unions and NGOs supporting the rights ofworkers in international supply chains producing consumer goods forthe world market.
Jane Wills is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary,University of London and a board member of Women Working Worldwide.Her previous publications include Dissident Geographies: AnIntroduction to Radical Ideas and Practices (2000), Place,Space and the New Labour Internationalisms (BlackwellPublishing, 2001) and Union Futures: Building Networked TradeUnionism in the UK (2002).