Brooks, Ethel Carolyn.

Unraveling the garment industry : transnational organizing and women's work / - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007. - xxxiii, 243 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 27 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.

List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Children, schools, and labored questions -- Organizing in times of (post)war -- The ideal of transnational organizing -- Disciplining bodies -- Women first? -- Living proof -- Epilogue: gender and the work of branding -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

9780816644858 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816644865 (pb : alk. paper)

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Anti-sweatshop movement.
Protest movements--International cooperation.
Women--Social conditions.--Developing countries
Women--Economic conditions.--Developing countries
Working class women.
Social conflict.

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