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Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry

Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry

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ISBN-10:: 1592132553
ISBN-13:: 9781592132553
Pub. Date:: 06/28/2004
Publisher:: Temple University Press

ISBN-10:: 1592132553
ISBN-13:: 9781592132553
Pub. Date:: 06/28/2004
Publisher:: Temple University Press

Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry

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ISBN-13:	9781592132553
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	06/28/2004
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.24(w) x 9.24(h) x 0.89(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction: Monitoring, Sweatshops, and Labor Relations	1
1	The Rise and Fall of the Social Contract in the Apparel Industry	13
2	The Social-Accountability Contract	33
3	Private Monitoring in Practice	60
4	Weaknesses and Conflicts in Private Monitoring	89
5	The Development of International Monitoring	119
6	Examining International Codes of Conduct and Monitoring Efforts	145
7	The Struggle for Independent Monitoring	165
	Conclusion: Workers, Consumers, and Independent Monitoring	198
Appendix 1	Confessions of a Sweatshop Monitor	209
Appendix 2	Research Methods	214
Appendix 3	List of Interviews	219
Appendix 4	Acronyms and Abbreviations	226
	Notes	229
	References	249
	Index	261

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