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9780520225060

Behind the Label

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520225060

  • ISBN10:

    0520225066

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Behind the Label is a fair minded, balanced social history of the apparel industry in Los Angles, and a good example of how society and the city work when this system produces and reproduces an intensifying class and race polarization.

Author Biography

Edna Bonacich is Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside Richard P. Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: The Return of the Sweatshop 1(26)
PART I: CAPITAL
Manufacturers
27(26)
Offshore Production (with Melanie Myers)
53(27)
Retailers
80(24)
The Power Elite
104(31)
PART II: LABOR
Contractors (with Ku-Sup Chin)
135(29)
Workers (with Gregory Scott)
164(36)
The Distribution of Wealth
200(21)
PART III: FIGHTING BACK
Government Enforcement and Retention Efforts (with Goetz Wolff)
221(41)
Worker Empowerment
262(33)
The Antisweatshop Movement
295(22)
Afterword: The Larger Questions 317(4)
Notes 321(40)
Bibliographic Note 361(6)
Index 367

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