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The Rag Trade as the Canary in the Coal Mine

The Rag Trade as the Canary in the Coal Mine Out Of the Sm Oke and the f lame: t he t riangle Shir t wai St f ire and it S l egacy By r obert J.S. r oss The Rg a T Raed sa The Caan Ry in The Cal o Mine The Global Sweatshop, 1980-2010 The global sweatshop has emerged from the integration of super- exploited labor in the Global South with the brands and retailers of the Global North. Beginning in the 1960s, apparel industry production migrated away from the high-wage nations. This trend is linked with the more general globalization of manufacturing, and is accelerated by the immensely concentrated power of the department store chains, especially tht e he decent conditions of the post-World War II big-box discounters like Wal-Mart. All of Global North such as those briefly obtained by this, in turn, is a product of the 1960s class apparel workers. It has also decimated the job conflicts in Europe and the United States, in stability, wages, and benefits of manufacturing which workers’ wages rose and corporate workers in formerly well-paid capital-intensive profits were threatened. industries like auto and steel. Thus the global sweatshop is a dramatic The current form of globalization is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Rag Trade as the Canary in the Coal Mine

New Labor Forum , Volume 20 (1): 8 – Feb 1, 2011

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SAGE
Copyright
© 2011 Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
ISSN
1095-7960
eISSN
1557-2978
DOI
10.4179/NLF.201.0000007
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Abstract

Out Of the Sm Oke and the f lame: t he t riangle Shir t wai St f ire and it S l egacy By r obert J.S. r oss The Rg a T Raed sa The Caan Ry in The Cal o Mine The Global Sweatshop, 1980-2010 The global sweatshop has emerged from the integration of super- exploited labor in the Global South with the brands and retailers of the Global North. Beginning in the 1960s, apparel industry production migrated away from the high-wage nations. This trend is linked with the more general globalization of manufacturing, and is accelerated by the immensely concentrated power of the department store chains, especially tht e he decent conditions of the post-World War II big-box discounters like Wal-Mart. All of Global North such as those briefly obtained by this, in turn, is a product of the 1960s class apparel workers. It has also decimated the job conflicts in Europe and the United States, in stability, wages, and benefits of manufacturing which workers’ wages rose and corporate workers in formerly well-paid capital-intensive profits were threatened. industries like auto and steel. Thus the global sweatshop is a dramatic The current form of globalization is

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Published: Feb 1, 2011

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