Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers

Book Overview

Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249399
• ISBN13: 9780812249392
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"