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Article: No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers.
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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No Sweat: Fashion, Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers edited by Andrew Ross Verso. 313 pages. $19.00.
This refreshing collection--part history, part critique, and part activist handbook--is the result of a 1996 conference on the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers includes commentary from human-rights activists, academics, garment workers, trade unionists, journalists, and even a CEO or two. Since "sweatshops today come in all shapes and sizes," Ross argues that these various commentaries are necessary "to apply pressure at all points in the chain: from ...
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