Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops - Softcover

Sluiter, Liesbeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745327680 ISBN 13: 9780745327686

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers. This is the story of their struggle.

Large retailers such as Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour lure shoppers in with prices that seem too good to be true. This book shows that they're too good to be fair. All along the industry's supply chain, workers, often children, are exploited through poverty wages, unpaid overtime and harsh anti-union measures. The campaign urges those in charge of the garment industry's supply lines to protect their workers and treat them fairly.

This dynamic account of direct engagement by concerned consumers is a must read for those that see globalisation differently and want their shopping choices to support the most vulnerable people involved in the clothing industry.

About this title

About the Author:

Liesbeth Sluiter is a Dutch freelance photographer and journalist, who has worked for over 25 years with a passionate focus on environment, gender and global development issues. She is the author of The Mekong Currency (1993), published in the UK, the Netherlands, and Japan, and has written numerous articles on development and environmental issues. For the past three years she has focused on the issue of working conditions in the global garment industry and on the work of the Clean Clothes Campaign, a worldwide network that pushes for improvement of these conditions.

Review:

'Those of us who wear 'sweaters' might be interested to know that the word lies in the history of industrial organisation, as this masterful account makes clear. There is much insight on development trajectories to be gleaned from this book' -- Duncan Campbell, Director, Department of Economics and Labour Market Analysis, International Labour Organisation, United Nations 'Creating conditions for fair labour in the global economy is the greatest moral challenge of our times. Clean Clothes is an indispensable and sure-footed guide to a sweat-free future' -- Andrew Ross, author of Low Pay, High Profile and Nice Work If You Can Get It

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0745327680
• ISBN 13: 9780745327686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328