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Sewing Hope
- How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Engelsk Paperback
Sewing Hope
- How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Engelsk Paperback

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Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union-all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry's "race to the bottom" with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers' stories reveal how adding $0.90 to a sweatshirt's production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to reuniting families; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to getting running water; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry's sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory. Learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780520292925
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520292928
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2017
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2017
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