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Thursday, November 6 7:30 pm BOOK PARTY/FORUM Sweatshop USA The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective Liza Featherstone, Rich Greenwald, Manny Ness & Others TBA
Join us for an evening with contributors to the new book, Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. High profile scandals--from Kathy Lee to Nike--have brought the shocking and substandard conditions of factories to light raising questions about the relationship between the American consumer and foreign laborer. Focusing on American sweatshops--those sweatshops located in the United States as well as those abroad whose products are purchased by American consumers--in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, these essays offer a historical perspective on sweatshops and on their role in global migration and trade. They explore public debates over the sweatshop and suggest how these conversations have responded to changing patterns of global movements of people, goods and power. They also chronicle efforts to control and eradicate sweatshops and suggest how these campaigns were and remain both national and global.
Liza Featherstone is co-author of Students Against Sweatshops (Verso, 2002) Rich Greenwald is Assistant Professor of History at the US Merchant Marine Academy, co-editor of Sweatshop USA and author of the forthcoming book Law and Order in Industry (Temple University Press). Manny Ness is a Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and is the editor of Working USA as well as numerous articles and editor of several collection
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