Description |
ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
1. The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy / Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton and Paul Ong -- 2. Mapping a Global Industry: Apparel Production in the Pacific Rim Triangle / Edna Bonacich and David V. Waller -- 3. Power and Profits in the Apparel Commodity Chain / Richard P. Appelbaum and Gary Gereffi -- 4. U.S. Retailers and Asian Garment Production / Lucie Cheng and Gary Gereffi -- 5. The Role of U.S. Apparel Manufacturers in the Globalization of the Industry in the Pacific Rim / Edna Bonacich and David V. Waller -- 6. The Development Process of the Hong Kong Garment Industry: A Mature Industry in a Newly Industrialized Economy / Ho-Fuk Lau and Chi-Fai Chan -- 7. The Globalization of Taiwan's Garment Industry / Gary Gereffi and Mei-Lin Pan -- 8. The Korean Garment Industry: From Authoritarian Patriarchism to Industrial Paternalism / Seung Hoon Lee and Ho Keun Song -- 9. The Philippine Garment Industry / Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo -- 10. Thailand in the Pacific Rim Garment Industry / Richard F. Doner and Ansil Ramsay -- 11. The Garment Industry in Singapore: Clothes for the Emperor / Sara U. Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas and Thomas J. Finn -- 12. The Apparel Maquiladora Industry at the Mexican Border / Jorge Carrillo V. -- 13. Industrial Organization and Mexico-U.S. Free Trade: Evidence from the Mexican Garment Industry / Gordon H. Hanson -- 14. Export Manufacturing, State Policy, and Women Workers in the Dominican Republic / Helen I. Safa -- 15. The Maquila Revolution in Guatemala / Kurt Petersen -- 16. The Garment Industry and Economic Restructuring in Mexico and Central America / Norma Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton -- 17. Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry / Evelyn Blumenberg and Paul Ong -- 18. Recent Manufacturing Changes in the U.S. Apparel Industry: The Case of North Carolina / Ian M. Taplin -- 19. Immigrant Enterprise and Labor in the Los Angeles Garment Industry / James Loucky, Maria Soldatenko, Gregory Scott and Edna Bonacich -- 20. The Garment Industry, National Development, and Labor Organizing / Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton and Paul Ong. |
Summary |
"This collection of original essays examines the social and political consequences of the globalization of the apparel industry in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The contributors analyze the countries' trade policies, the apparel industry's network of capital ad labor, working conditions in garment factories, and the role of workers, especially women. Written by scholars of various nationalities and from different disciplines, this volume provides a look at the industry from the perspective of participants within each country and illustrates a general trend toward the internationalization of production and global economic restructuring."--Book cover. |
Subject |
Women clothing workers -- Pacific Area.
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Clothing workers -- Pacific Area.
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Clothing trade -- Pacific Area.
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Women clothing workers -- Developing countries.
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Clothing workers -- Developing countries.
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Clothing trade -- Developing countries.
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Women clothing workers -- United States.
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Clothing workers -- United States.
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Clothing trade -- United States.
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Trabajadores textiles -- Pacífico, Area del.
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Industria del vestido -- Pacífico, Area del.
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Mujeres en la industria del vestido -- United States.
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Trabajadores textiles -- United States.
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Industria del vestido -- United States.
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Países subdesarrollados -- Trabajadores textiles.
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Países subdesarrollados -- Mujeres en la industria del vestido.
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Países subdesarrollados -- Industria del vestido.
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Clothing trade. (OCoLC)fst00864754
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Clothing workers. (OCoLC)fst00864812
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Women clothing workers. (OCoLC)fst01177428
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Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
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Pacific Area. (OCoLC)fst01243504
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Textielhandel.
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Internationalisatie.
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Bekleidungsindustrie.
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Internationale Arbeitsteilung.
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Kongress.
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Pazifischer Raum.
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United States.
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Indexed Term |
Clothing trade Developing countries |
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Clothing trade Pacific Area |
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Clothing trade United States |
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Clothing workers Developing countries |
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Clothing workers Pacific Area |
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Clothing workers United States |
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Women clothing workers Developing countries |
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Women clothing workers Pacific Area |
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Women clothing workers United States |
Added Author |
Bonacich, Edna.
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ISBN |
1566391687 (alk. paper) |
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9781566391689 (alk. paper) |
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1566391695 (pbk.) (alk. paper) |
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9781566391696 (pbk.) (alk. paper) |