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