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Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops
Liesbeth Sluiter
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Description for Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops
Paperback. Dramatic story of the worldwide struggle to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. Num Pages: 328 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: JPVH; KCLT; KJG; KNDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle. Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too good to be true. This book shows that they're too good to be fair. All along the industry's supply chain, workers, often children, are exploited through poverty wages, unpaid overtime and harsh anti-union measures. The campaign urges those in charge of the garment industry's supply lines to protect their workers and treat them fairly. ... Read more
The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle. Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too good to be true. This book shows that they're too good to be fair. All along the industry's supply chain, workers, often children, are exploited through poverty wages, unpaid overtime and harsh anti-union measures. The campaign urges those in charge of the garment industry's supply lines to protect their workers and treat them fairly. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
398 g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745327686
SKU
V9780745327686
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Liesbeth Sluiter
Liesbeth Sluiter is a Dutch freelance photographer and journalist, who has worked for over 25 years with a passionate focus on environment, gender and global development issues. For the past three years she has focused on the issue of working conditions in the global garment industry and on the work of the Clean Clothes Campaign, she is the author of ... Read more
Reviews for Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops
'Those of us who wear 'sweaters' might be interested to know that the word lies in the history of industrial organisation, as this masterful account makes clear. There is much insight on development trajectories to be gleaned from this book'
Duncan Campbell, Director, Department of Economics and Labour Market Analysis, International Labour Organisation, United Nations ... Read more
Duncan Campbell, Director, Department of Economics and Labour Market Analysis, International Labour Organisation, United Nations ... Read more