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Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
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The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment
workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory
complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the
two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This
so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not
merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so
common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers' Rights in the
Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue
that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working
conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of
workers who labor in the export industries of the global South
arise from the very nature of world trade and production. Given
their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands
and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global
capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chains-such as those with
Walmart, Apple, and Nike at their heads-generate at least half of
all world trade and include hundreds of millions of workers at
thousands of contract manufacturers from Shenzhen and Shanghai to
Sao Paulo and San Pedro Sula. This book offers an incisive analysis
of this pernicious system along with essays that outline a set of
practical guides to its radical reform.
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