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The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry to examine the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety. Contributors analyze both the labor processes required of garment workers as well as the global dynamics of outsourcing and subcontracting that produce such demands on workers' health. The accounts contained in Unmaking the Global Sweatshop trace the histories of labor standards for garment workers in the global South; explore recent partnerships between corporate, state, and civil society actors in pursuit of accountable corporate governance; analyze a breadth of initiatives that seek to improve workers' health standards, from ethical trade projects to human rights movements; and focus on the ways in which risk, health, and safety might be differently conceptualized and regulated. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop argues for an expansive understanding of garment workers' lived experiences that recognizes the politics of labor, human rights, the privatization and individualization of health-related responsibilities as well as the complexity of health and well-being.Contributors: Mark Anner, Hasan Ashraf, Jennifer Bair, Jeremy Blasi, Geert De Neve, Saydia Gulrukh, Ingrid Hagen-Keith, Sandya Hewamanne, Caitrin Lynch, Alessandra Mezzadri, Patrick Neveling, Florence Palpacuer, Rebecca Prentice, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Nazneen Shifa, Dina M. Siddiqi, Mahmudul H. Sumon.

Clothing workers --- Sweatshops. --- Sweat shops --- Sweated industries --- Sweating system --- Factories --- Anti-sweatshop movement --- Clothing trade --- Garment workers --- Employees --- Health and hygiene.

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Labor unions --- Women anarchists --- Labor movement --- Anarchist women --- Anarchists --- Officials and employees --- History --- Pesotta, Rose, --- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union --- Internashanal leydis garment vorkers yunyon --- Union internationale des ouvriers du vêtement pour dames --- Inṭerneshonal leydis garmenṭ ṿoyrḳers yunyon --- UIOVD (Union internationale des ouvriers du vêtement pour dames) --- ILGWU (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union) --- Convention of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union --- U.I.O.V.D. (Union internationale des ouvriers du vêtement pour dames) --- I.L.G.W.U. (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union) --- אינטערנעשאָנאל לײדיעס גאַרמענטד װאָירקערס יוניאן --- אינטערנעשיאנאל ליידיעס גארמענט ווארקערס יוניאן --- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union --- Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees --- History. --- E-books

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History of North America --- trade unions --- Social problems --- Dubinsky, David --- Clothing workers --- Labor unions --- History. --- Officials and employees --- Dubinsky, David, --- #BUAR:bibl.de Bock --- Sociale problemen --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika --- vakbonden --- Clothing trade --- Garment workers --- Labor unions&delete& --- History --- Employees --- Dubnievski, David,

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The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892-1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A "character" in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bound by convention. A Jewish labor radical, Dubinsky fled czarist Poland in 1910 and began his career as a garment worker and union agitator in New York City. He quickly rose through the ranks of the International Ladies' Garment Workers'Union (ILGWU) and became its president in 1932. Dubinsky led the ILGWU

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Changes in the global economy have real and contradictory outcomes for the everyday lives of women workers. In 2001, Nancy Plankey-Videla had a rare opportunity to witness these effects firsthand. Having secured access to one of Latin America's top producers of high-end men's suits in Mexico for participant-observer research, she labored as a machine operator for nine months on a shop floor made up, mostly, of women. The firm had recently transformed itself from traditional assembly techniques, to lean, cutting-edge, Japanese-style production methods. Lured initially into the firm by way of increased wages and benefits, workers had helped shoulder the company's increasing debts. When the company's plan for successful expansion went awry and it reneged on promises it had made to the workforce, women workers responded by walking out on strike. Building upon in-depth interviews with over sixty workers, managers, and policy makers, Plankey-Videla documents and analyzes events leading up to the female-led factory strike and its aftermath-including harassment from managers, corrupt union officials and labor authorities, and violent governor-sanctioned police actions. We Are in This Dance Together illustrates how the women's shared identity as workers and mothers-deserving of dignity, respect, and a living wage-became the basis for radicalization and led to further civic organizing against the state, the company, and the corrupt union to demand justice.

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