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Author: Liza Featherstone Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9781859843024 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 132
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This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Author: Liza Featherstone Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9781859843024 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
This short, punchy book is both a record of a new mass campaign and a tool for the realization of its goals. The students demand one thing: that clothing bearing university logos must be produced under healthy, safe, and fair working conditions.
Author: Matthew S. Williams Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9781439918210 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important.
Author: Allie Robbins Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 33
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This article takes an in-depth look at the student anti-sweatshop movement and proposes the next chapter of organizing, providing greater protections for garment workers by securing their access to the United States' judicial system.On December 16, 2011 the United States Department of Justice issued a business review letter giving the green light to the Designated Supplier Program put forth by the Worker Rights Consortium and United Students Against Sweatshops. This letter is the culmination of a six-year campaign by university students to have their colleges and universities source collegiate apparel solely from factories that provide safe and healthy working conditions, pay a living wage, and respect workers' right to organize a union. For six years, brands such as Nike and Adidas have stalled implementation of the Designated Supplier Program by claiming that it violated antitrust laws. Over the past six years, as students have struggled tirelessly for DSP implementation, the student labor movement has had both disappointments and successes. Some factories that had organized and won good working conditions were shut down, while others were reopened and brands forced to fulfill their commitments. The ups and downs of the movement have further solidified the need for a new form of organizing, one with greater power for workers and new enforcement mechanisms. In this article, I explore the idea that jobber agreements - agreements between brands and unions governing working conditions in supplier factories - may be the best way forward for the next phase of international solidarity campaigns by the student anti-sweatshop movement. Under this proposal, brands would sign jobber agreements with unions both in the United States and around the world, covering the working conditions in the collegiate apparel factories to which the brands outsource their production. By virtue of most collegiate apparel brands being U.S. companies, these jobber agreements would be subject to U.S. contract law. As such, if a brand violates an agreement and does not see to it that its supplier factories respect workers' rights, pay a living wage, and permit the organizing of a union, the workers themselves can sue those companies in U.S. courts. This places much greater power in the hands of workers and worker organizations than the current model of anti-sweatshop organizing allows.
Author: Laura Hapke Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813542561 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that policymakers are concerned with, nor intending to provide a strict historical chronology, this unique book shows, rather, how the “real” sweatshop has become intertwined with the “invented” sweatshop of our national imagination, and how this mixture of rhetoric and myth has endowed American sweatshops with rich and complex cultural meaning. Hapke uncovers a wide variety of tales and images that writers, artists, social scientists, reformers, and workers themselves have told about “the shop.” Adding an important perspective to historical and economic approaches, Sweatshop draws on sources from antebellum journalism, Progressive era surveys, modern movies, and anti-sweatshop websites. Illustrated chapters detail how the shop has been a facilitator of assimilation, a promoter of upward mobility, the epitome of exploitation, a site of ethnic memory, a venue for political protest, and an expression of twentieth-century managerial narratives. An important contribution to the real and imagined history of garment industry exploitation, this book provides a valuable new context for understanding contemporary sweatshops that now represent the worst expression of an unregulated global economy.
Author: Liza Featherstone
Author: Liza Featherstone
Author: United Students Against Sweatshops
Author: Matthew S. Williams
Author: United Students Against Sweatshops
Author: United Students Against Sweatshops
Author: Benjamin Powell
Author: Melanie Stibick
Author: Allie Robbins
Author: Margaret R. Slaska
Author: Laura Hapke