No Sweat

Are you aware that the T-shirt or the running shoes you are wearing may have been produced by children as young as 13 years old, working 14-hour days for 30 cents an hour? Don't be reassured by a label that claims the item was manufactured in the USA or Europe. It could have been sewn in Haiti or Indonesia -- or in a domestic sweatshop where conditions rival those in the Third World. The label may tell you how to treat the garment, but it says nothing of how the worker who made it was treated. To find out about that you need to read this book. No Sweat shows you: * How Michael Jordan earned more for endorsing Nike running shoes that then company's 30,000 Indonesian workers get between them in a year. * How Disney CEO Michael Eisner's annual pay and stock options, worth $200 million, are partly paid for out of profits from the sale of Pocahontas and Hunchback of Notre Dame T-shirts made by Haitian teenagers who work for less than $10 per week and are force-fed contraceptive pills. * How companies like GAP and Wal-Mart (producer of the Kathie Lee Gifford line), have been forced into embarrassing concessions after successful campaigning by the New York-based National Labor Committee, the American garment workers union UNITE and the European-based Clean Clothes Campaign. * How you can join the growing global campaign of consumer groups, human rights activists and international labor organizations to close down sweatshops and guarantee basic rights for those who cut and sew our clothes. In hard-hitting words and pictures, No Sweat tells the story of the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop. Don't go shopping without it.

ISBN 1859841724   Pages 324 ISBN13 9781859841723 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Verso Books   Weight (grammes) 560 Imprint Verso Books   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 01 Sep 1997   Width (mm) 191 Library of Congress 00000000   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 331.7687   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface and Acknowledgments		1
		Testimony by Lina Rodriguez Meza		4
		Introduction by Andrew Ross		9
		The Global Resistance to Sweatshops by John Cavanagh		39
		From War Zone to Free Trade Zone by Kitty Krupat		51
		Paying to Lose Our Jobs by Charles Kernaghan		79
		An Appeal to Walt Disney		95
		The Myth of Nimble Fingers by Elinor Spielberg		113
		Rat-Catching: An Interview with Bud Konheim by Sally Singer		123
		The Economics of the Sweatshop by Michael Piore		135
		El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops by Julie Su		143
		Labor, History, and Sweatshops in the New Global Economy by Alan Howard		151
		New York: Defending the Union Contract by Carl Proper		173
		"They Want to Kill Us for a Little Money" by Jo-Ann Mort		193
		The Structure and Growth of the Los Angeles Garment Industry by Steve Nutter		199
		The Labor Behind the Label: Clean Clothes Campaigns in Europe by Linda Shaw		215
		Sweatshopping by Eyal Press		221
		Fashion as a Culture Industry by McKenzie Wark		227
		Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization by Paul Smith		249
		The Problem with Ugly Chic by Robin Givhan		263
		A New Kind of Rag Trade? by Angela McRobbie		275
		After the Year of the Sweatshop: Postscript by Andrew Ross		291
		No Sweat Fashion List, Department of Labor		298
		Notes		299
		Contributors		310
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