Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective (Antipode Book Series)

By Angela Hale and Jane Wills

Book Overview

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by anetwork of garment workers' support organizations and makes senseof global supply chains from the bottom up. Presents new empirical research by a network of garmentworkers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated actionresearch in order to better understand and resist the negativeimpact of globalization on labour.Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already tryingto reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop newforms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in theglobal garment industry.Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405126388
• ISBN13: 9781405126380
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"