• Author:
  • Hale, Angela
  • Wills, Jane
• Subject:
  Geography
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons (UK)
• Published:
  20/09/2005
• Price:
  $150.00
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Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers’ support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.

Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers’ support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.

Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.

Ensures that workers’ voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.

Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the global garment industry.

Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.

Angela Hale is Director of Women Working Worldwide, an NGO based at Manchester Metropolitan University. She previously lectured in sociology at the university and has published many articles relating to women workers. Women Working Worldwide works with a network of trade unions and NGOs supporting the rights of workers in international supply chains producing consumer goods for the world market.

Jane Wills is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and a board member of Women Working Worldwide. Her previous publications include Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practices (2000), Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and Union Futures: Building Networked Trade Unionism in the UK (2002).

List of Illustrations.

List of Tables.

List of Boxes.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

1 Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry. (Jane Wills with Angela Hale).

2 The Changing Face of the Global Garment Industry. (Jennifer Hurley with Doug Miller).

3 Organising and Networking in Support of Garment Workers. (Angela Hale).

4 Action Research. Tracing the Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry. (Jane Wills with Jennifer Hurley).

5 Unravelling the Web. Supply Chains and Workers’ Lives in the Garment Industry. (Jennifer Hurley).

6 Coming Undone. The Implications of Garment Industry Subcontracting for UK Workers. (Camille Warren).

7 The Impact of Full-package Production in Mexico’s Blue Jean Capital. (Lynda Yanz with Bob Jeffcott).

8 Defending Workers’ Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces. Rohini Hensman (Women Working Worldwide.

9 The Phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from the Perspective of Workers. (Angela Hale with Maggie Burns).

10 Conclusion. (Angela Hale with Jane Will).

References.

Index