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Cook's Nooks: Sweatshops
This nook is devoted to books about sweat shops. More than a hundred nations have endorsed the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, which reaffirms workers' rights to safe and healthy working conditions, to collective bargaining through unions, and to "just and favorable remuneration [pay] ensuring for themselves and their families an existence worthy of human dignity." A sweat shop is a factory that violates these internationally guaranteed standards.
There's a lot to learn about sweatshops, how they work, and how they are related to our daily lives. As you read the reviews below, you may find yourself interested in a particular book. Click on the graphic of the book's cover and you'll be taken to Barnes & Noble,
where you can buy the book and have it sent to your home. Happy reading!
| Child Labor and Sweatshops
Edited by Mary E. Williams
This is a hot-off-the-press collection of seventeen articles on sweatshops written by journalists, human-rights activists, labor experts, teachers and others concerned about the proliferation of sweatshops. The collection provides valuable in-depth information about sweatshops and the systems of politics and economics that they work within. Not a work of fluff, this is a highly substantial volume that should prove useful to anyone who would like to become expert in the subject of sweatshop labor.
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No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers
Andrew Ross
If Mary E. Williams'
Child Labor and Sweatshops is an expert work for the head, No Sweat is designed to hit you in the gut. With 100 photographs in its 256 pages, you'll see exactly what sweatshops are all about. Articles are written in an accessible yet informative manner that gives the reader the feeling of being in the sweatshop industry (as much as any book can). The many collaborators on this book (who include Jo-Ann Mort, Alan Howard, Julie Su, Charles Kernaghan, Bud Konheim, Mike Piore, John Cavanagh, MacKenzie Wark, Angela McRobbie, Robin Givhan and Paul Smith) focus on the relationship between the fashion and clothing supply industries of the U.S. and the sweatshop industries of the third world. The book avoids falling into the trap of ineffectual empathy by presenting a number of useful actions that readers take to join the growing movement against sweatshop labor abuses.
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