3. Sourcing Ethical Fashion for Collegiate Apparel: “School House” Lessons in Business and Ethics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction: Rethinking Garment Workers’ Health and Safety 1
5. Part I. The Rise and Fall of Labor Standards
6. 1. Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today 29
7. 2. Voluntary Versus Binding Forms of Regulation in Global Production Networks: Exploring the “Paradoxes of Partnership” in the European Anti-Sweatshop Movement 57
8. 3. Sourcing Ethical Fashion for Collegiate Apparel: “School House” Lessons in Business and Ethics 87
9. Part II. From Structures to Actors, and Back
10. 4. Capital over Labor: Health and Safety in Export Processing Zone Garment Production since 1947 123
11. 5. Discourses of Compensation and the Normalization of Negligence: The Experience of the Tazreen Factory Fire 147
12. 6. Garment Sweatshop Regimes, the Laboring Body, and the Externalization of Social Responsibility over Health and Safety Provisions 173
13. Part III. Rethinking Health as Well-Being at Work and Home
14. 7. Limited Leave? Clinical Provisioning and Healthy Bodies in Sri Lanka’s Apparel Sector 203
15. 8. Toward Meaningful Health and Safety Measures: Stigma and the Devaluation of Garment Work in Sri Lanka’s Global Factories 226
16. 9. Beyond Building Safety: An Ethnographic Account of Health and Well-Being on the Bangladesh Garment Shop Floor 250
17. Afterword: Politics After Rana Plaza 275
18. List of Contributors 283
19. Index 287
20. Acknowledgments 291