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BL
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1022845
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b777215
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| Main Entry
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Brooks, Ethel Carolyn.
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| Title & Author
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Unraveling the garment industry : : transnational organizing and women's work /\ Ethel C. Brooks.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Social movements, protest, and contention ;; v. 27
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1 online resource (xxxiii, 243 pages) :: illustrations, map
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| ISBN
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0816654115
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0816644853
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0816644861
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9780816644858
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9780816644865
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Unraveling the Garment Industry investigates the politics of labor and protest within the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movementsagainst GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York CityEthel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.
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Anti-sweatshop movement.
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Protest movements-- International cooperation.
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Social conflict.
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Women-- Developing countries-- Economic conditions.
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Women-- Developing countries-- Social conditions.
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Working class women.
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Anti-sweatshop movement.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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Protest movements-- International cooperation.
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Social conflict.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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Women-- Economic conditions.
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Women-- Social conditions.
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Working class women.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.4/25
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| LC Classification
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HD2337.B76 2007eb
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