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Labour in the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific (Hardcover)
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Labour in the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
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The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers
worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the
Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted
production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of
manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost
advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour
market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This
book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the
ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made
disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address
issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of
activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with
diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns.
Contributors further examine the role of the nation state,
government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring
systems such as the International Labour Organization. Although
there has been considerable effort directed to understanding how
firms operate across multiple countries - in studies of the
organization of global production networks, and the implications
for complexities of scale, (de)territorialization and state
development projects - there has been far less focus on how these
processes produce precarious labour and reshape worker
consciousness. Offering new insights into the understanding and
support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this
book will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines
including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development,
human rights, labour and gender.
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