Sweated Industries
Author : Daily News (London)
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN :
Sweated Work, Weak Bodies
Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813533384
Book Description
In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst examples of Progressive-Era American industrialization. Although reformers agreed that these unsafe workplaces must be abolished, their reasons have seldom been fully examined. Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is the first book on the origins of sweatshops, exploring how they came to represent the dangers of industrialization and the perils of immigration. It is an innovative study of the language used to define the sweatshop, how these definitions shaped the first anti-sweatshop campaign, and how they continue to influence our current understanding of the sweatshop.
A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work?
Author : Sheila Blackburn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754632641
Book Description
Adopting a broad national and long-run approach, this book examines the issue of sweated labour and the legal control of low pay in Britain between 1840 and 1930. It explores the definition of sweated labour and the forces that generate it, as well as tackling the image of the sweated labourer and how it has changed over time. Having focused on these issues, the book then looks at how the problem was dealt with and analyses the success of reforms aimed at eradicating the practice.
Blood, Sweat, and Fear
Author : Jeremy Milloy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : 9780774834537
Book Description
"Going postal. We hear the chilling phrase and think of the rogue employee who snaps. But Blood, Sweat, and Fear shows that on-the-job bloodshed never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, Jeremy Milloy provides fresh insights into the everyday workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the United States and Canada. The result is a study that reveals the workplace as a battleground--one that saw a late-century paradigm shift from the collective violence of strikes and riots to the individualized violence of assaults and shootings. Explosive and original, Blood, Sweat, and Fear brings historical perspective to contemporary debates about North American workplace violence."--Back cover
Sweatshops on Wheels
Author : Michael H. Belzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195128864
Book Description
Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.
With Our Labor and Sweat
Author : Karen B. Graubart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804753555
Book Description
Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in early colonial Peru, from the massive changes in their working lives, to their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to their creation of urban dress styles that reflected their new positions as consumers and as producers under Spanish rule.
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop
Author : Rebecca Prentice
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812249399
Book Description
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
Sweat
Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822237644
Book Description
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Author : Richard Donkin
Publisher : Texere Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
Book Description
A striking narrative history of work and the individuals and events that have been responsible for its evolution. Work--a process familiar to almost everyone--has radically changed over the centuries. The author examines early societies, slavery, guilds, trade secrets, religion and unions.
Sewing Hope
Author : Sarah Adler-Milstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520966244
Book Description
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry’s usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers’ stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt’s production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry’s sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.
