Download or read book Students Against Sweatshops written by Liza Featherstone and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Download or read book Students Against Sweatshops the Making of a Movement written by United Students Against Sweatshops and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategizing against Sweatshops written by Matthew S. Williams and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important.
Download or read book United Students Against Sweatshops Sweat free Campus Campaign Organizing Manual written by United Students Against Sweatshops and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Out of Poverty written by Benjamin Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Download or read book Campus Mobilizations Against Sweatshops written by Melanie Stibick and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of the Student Anti Sweatshop Movement written by Allie Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article takes an in-depth look at the student anti-sweatshop movement and proposes the next chapter of organizing, providing greater protections for garment workers by securing their access to the United States' judicial system.On December 16, 2011 the United States Department of Justice issued a business review letter giving the green light to the Designated Supplier Program put forth by the Worker Rights Consortium and United Students Against Sweatshops. This letter is the culmination of a six-year campaign by university students to have their colleges and universities source collegiate apparel solely from factories that provide safe and healthy working conditions, pay a living wage, and respect workers' right to organize a union. For six years, brands such as Nike and Adidas have stalled implementation of the Designated Supplier Program by claiming that it violated antitrust laws. Over the past six years, as students have struggled tirelessly for DSP implementation, the student labor movement has had both disappointments and successes. Some factories that had organized and won good working conditions were shut down, while others were reopened and brands forced to fulfill their commitments. The ups and downs of the movement have further solidified the need for a new form of organizing, one with greater power for workers and new enforcement mechanisms. In this article, I explore the idea that jobber agreements - agreements between brands and unions governing working conditions in supplier factories - may be the best way forward for the next phase of international solidarity campaigns by the student anti-sweatshop movement. Under this proposal, brands would sign jobber agreements with unions both in the United States and around the world, covering the working conditions in the collegiate apparel factories to which the brands outsource their production. By virtue of most collegiate apparel brands being U.S. companies, these jobber agreements would be subject to U.S. contract law. As such, if a brand violates an agreement and does not see to it that its supplier factories respect workers' rights, pay a living wage, and permit the organizing of a union, the workers themselves can sue those companies in U.S. courts. This places much greater power in the hands of workers and worker organizations than the current model of anti-sweatshop organizing allows.
Download or read book Coalition Building and Feminist Organizing in United Students Against Sweatshops written by Margaret R. Slaska and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweatshop written by Laura Hapke and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the “real” sweatshop has become intertwined with the “invented” sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about “the shop.” Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
Download or read book Sweatshop USA written by Daniel E. Bender and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has rediscovered its sweatshops. High profile scandals - from Kathy Lee to Nike - have brought the shocking and substandard conditions of factories to light, causing more Americans to become aware of the relationship between the American consumer and foreign labourer.
Download or read book Sewing Hope written by Sarah Adler-Milstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry’s usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers’ stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt’s production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry’s sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.
Download or read book Sweatshop Warriors written by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie and published by South End Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself. With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).
Download or read book Unmaking the Global Sweatshop written by Rebecca Prentice and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
Download or read book Rethinking Globalization written by Bill Bigelow and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2002 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents lessons and activities covering the topics of social justice and globalization.
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Download or read book Maquila Solidarity written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet contains excerpts from an interview with Yessenia Guania, a 22-year old maquila workers and a member of the union SITRAKIMIH that recently won a collective agreement in Honduras.
