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Pages: 114
Authors: Archon Fung
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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Although watchdog agencies monitor workplaces and press corporations to raise labor standards, these agencies are not enough; only coordinated action by consume
Out of Poverty
Language: en
Pages: 199
Authors: Benjamin Powell
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores how sweatshops provide the best opportunity to workers and the role they play in the process of development.
Clean Clothes
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Liesbeth Sluiter
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-15 - Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

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Dramatic story of the worldwide struggle to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers.
Sweatshops on Wheels
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Michael H. Belzer
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on W
When Good Jobs Go Bad
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Jeffrey S. Rothstein
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-16 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies on the impact of globalization on