Strategizing against sweatshops : the global economy, student activism, and worker empowerment /
"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 ch...
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism
- Theorizing social movement strategy
- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops
- Higher education as a political opportunity structure
- The origins of United Students Against Sweatshops
- USAS's campus-level strategy
- USAS's ideology of worker empowerment
- The organization of USAS
- The brands strike back : corporate social responsibility and the creation of the Fair Labor Association
- The creation of the Worker Rights Consortium
- Embedded autonomy and the fire alarm model : the organization and monitoring practices of the WRC
- Transnational solidarity campaigns
- The designated suppliers program
- Sweatfree communities.