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Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective (Antipode Book Series)
Threads of Labour Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective - Antipode Book Series Author:Angela Hale, Jane Wills Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up. — * Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico. — * Creates a blueprint for conducting... more » worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
* Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.
* Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the global garment industry.
* Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.« less