"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime,
must reading for students of the globalization debate."
---Tom Hayden
""Slaves to Fashion" is a remarkable achievement, several books in
one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline,
fall, and return; a study of how the media portray them; an
analysis of the fortunes of the current anti-sweatshop movement; an
anatomy of the global traffic in apparel, in particular the
South-South competition that sends wages and working conditions
plummeting toward the bottom; and not least, a passionate
declaration of faith that humanity can find a way to get its work
done without sweatshops. This is engaged sociology at its most
stimulating."
---Todd Gitlin
." . . unflinchingly portrays the reemergence of the sweatshop in
our dog-eat-dog economy."
---"Los Angeles Times"
Just as Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" uncovered the
plight of the working poor in America, Robert J. S. Ross's "Slaves
to Fashion" exposes the dark side of the apparel industry and its
exploited workers at home and abroad. It's both a lesson in
American business history and a warning about one of the most
important issues facing the global capital economy-the reappearance
of the sweatshop.
Vividly detailing the decline and tragic rebirth of sweatshop
conditions in the American apparel industry of the twentieth
century, Ross explains the new sweatshops as a product of
unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union
erosion, and exploitation of undocumented workers. Using historical
material and economic and social data, the author shows that after
a brief thirty-five years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel
business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and
exploitation.
Refreshingly jargon-free but documented in depth, "Slaves to
Fashion" is the only work to estimate the size of the sweatshop
problem and to systematically show its impact on apparel workers'
wages. It is also unique in its analysis of the budgets and
personnel used in enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Anyone who is concerned about this urgent social and economic topic
and wants to go beyond the headlines should read this important and
timely contribution to the rising debate on low-wage factory labor.
Robert J.S. Ross is Professor of Sociology, Clark University. He is
an expert in the area of sweatshops and globalization. He is an
activist academic who travels and lectures extensively and has
published numerous related articles.
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