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Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment, Matthew S. Williams
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- Summary
- "Tells the story of how the student anti-sweatshop movement on US college campuses was able to coordinate a massive change in strategy in response to new labor tactics undertaken by target garment industry corporations. Demonstrates that a decentralized movement can coordinate in response to changing opportunities"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 267 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
-
- Anatomy of United States against Sweatshops (USAS)
- Origins of USAS
- USAS's campus-level strategy
- USAS's ideology of worker empowerment
- Organization of USAS
- Cycles of contention and strategic innovation
- Brands strike back : corporate social responsibility and the creation of the Fair Labor Association
- Creation of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
- Embedded autonomy and the fire alarm model : the organization and monitoring practices of the WRC
- Transnational solidarity campaigns
- Preface:
- Designated suppliers program
- Sweatfree communities
- Continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction :
- Theorizing social movement strategy
- Political opportunity structrures
- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops
- Higher education as a political opportunity structure
- Isbn
- 9781439918227
- Label
- Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment
- Title
- Strategizing against sweatshops
- Title remainder
- the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew S. Williams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Tells the story of how the student anti-sweatshop movement on US college campuses was able to coordinate a massive change in strategy in response to new labor tactics undertaken by target garment industry corporations. Demonstrates that a decentralized movement can coordinate in response to changing opportunities"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Matthew S.
- Dewey number
- 331.25/6
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD2337
- LC item number
- .W55 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Anti-sweatshop movement
- Student movements
- College students
- Sweatshops
- Clothing trade
- Employee rights
- Social justice
- Label
- Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment, Matthew S. Williams
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Anatomy of United States against Sweatshops (USAS)
- Origins of USAS
- USAS's campus-level strategy
- USAS's ideology of worker empowerment
- Organization of USAS
- Cycles of contention and strategic innovation
- Brands strike back : corporate social responsibility and the creation of the Fair Labor Association
- Creation of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
- Embedded autonomy and the fire alarm model : the organization and monitoring practices of the WRC
- Transnational solidarity campaigns
- Preface:
- Designated suppliers program
- Sweatfree communities
- Continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction :
- Theorizing social movement strategy
- Political opportunity structrures
- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops
- Higher education as a political opportunity structure
- Control code
- on1096223553
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xix, 267 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439918227
- Lccn
- 2019011975
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1096223553
- Label
- Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment, Matthew S. Williams
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Anatomy of United States against Sweatshops (USAS)
- Origins of USAS
- USAS's campus-level strategy
- USAS's ideology of worker empowerment
- Organization of USAS
- Cycles of contention and strategic innovation
- Brands strike back : corporate social responsibility and the creation of the Fair Labor Association
- Creation of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
- Embedded autonomy and the fire alarm model : the organization and monitoring practices of the WRC
- Transnational solidarity campaigns
- Preface:
- Designated suppliers program
- Sweatfree communities
- Continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction :
- Theorizing social movement strategy
- Political opportunity structrures
- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops
- Higher education as a political opportunity structure
- Control code
- on1096223553
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xix, 267 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439918227
- Lccn
- 2019011975
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1096223553
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