Author: International Labour OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9789221024330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Employment Effects in the Clothing Industry of Changes in International Trade
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9789221024330
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Employment Effects in clothing industry of changes in international trade
Author: The Employment Effects in the Clothing Industry of Changes in International Trade
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organisation
ISBN: 9789221024330
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY OF CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
Author: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION. TRIPARTITE TECHNICAL MEETING FOR THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
The Employment Effects of International Trade in the Apparel Industry
Author: Carol ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
International Trade, Employment, and Structural Adjustment
Author: H. Peter GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Impact on Employment and Income of Structural and Technological Change in the Clothing Industry
Author: Making Sweatshops
Author: Ellen RosenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520928571
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice—especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world. Rosen looks closely at the role trade policy has played in globalization in this industry. She traces the history of current policies toward the textile and apparel trade to cold war politics and the reconstruction of the Pacific Rim economies after World War II. Her narrative takes us through the rise of protectionism and the subsequent dismantling of trade protection during the Reagan era to the passage of NAFTA and the continued push for trade accords through the WTO. Going beyond purely economic factors, this valuable study elaborates the full historical and political context in which the globalization of textiles and apparel has taken place. Rosen takes a critical look at the promises of prosperity, both in the U.S. and in developing countries, made by advocates for the global expansion of these industries. She offers evidence to suggest that this process may inevitably create new and more extreme forms of poverty.
The Impact of International Trade and Investment on Employment
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balance of payments
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Conference paper on the impact of trade and USA foreign investments on the labour market and employment - examines effects of trade barriers, free trade, technology transfer, etc. On layoff, labour turnover, import competition, unemployment (incl. In the iron and steel industry and motor vehicle industry), etc., and considers implications of an adjustment assistance programme for employment policy and tariff policy. Graphs, references and statistical tables. Conference held in Washington 1976 December 2 and 3.
Making Sweatshops
Author: Ellen Israel RosenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520233379
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Making Sweatshops reveals the inexorable movement towards an open trading system, the shifting alignments of actors pushing for or opposing openness, and, most centrally, how trade policy promotes the globalization of apparel production, filling a gap in our understanding of these dynamics."—Richard P. Appelbaum, coauthor of Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry "A detailed examination of the role that trade policy plays in the process of globalization. Rosen provides a meticulous historical analysis of the textile/apparel industry, one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues."—Stephen Cullenberg, coauthor of Transition and Development in India "Rosen shows how politics have always shaped the trade agenda from beginning to end, and she presents a most compelling case that if trade and the global economy are to foster justice and equality for the people of our world, we will need to rewrite the existing rules of global trade."—Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee "This book delves deep into the industry's trade journals, congressional testimony, newspaper accounts, and economic and political scholarship of the last fifty-five years to tell the story of U.S. trade policy and the decline of labor standards in the apparel industry. This patient and voluminous examination systematically reveals, for the first time, how the U.S. sacrificed its apparel workers on the altar, first of the anti-Communist crusade, and then of free trade ideology."—Robert J.S. Ross, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Director, International Studies Stream, Clark University "Making Sweatshops is, in part, a history of the apparel and textile industries in the U.S. and the world. But it is much more than that. It is also about power and globalization. Rosen explains how the former shapes the latter, and how workers around the world suffer because of it. Activists, policy makers, consumers--anyone interested in understanding why sweatshops exist--should read this book."—Bruce Raynor, President, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (Unite) "Rosen convincingly demonstrates that it is the transnational corporations rather than the consumers, and certainly rather than the workers, who benefit from trade liberalization, whose rules the lobbyists for these very coporations more or less write for supine politicians. This is a book in the great tradition of solid scholarship allied with deep commitment to the cause of global economic justice."—Leslie Sklair, author of Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives