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Strategizing against Sweatshops - The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment (Paperback)
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Strategizing against Sweatshops - The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment (Paperback)
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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.
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