Angela Hale & Jane Wills 
Threads of Labour [PDF ebook] 
Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers‘ Perspective

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a
network of garment workers‘ support organizations and makes sense
of global supply chains from the bottom up.

* Presents new empirical research by a network of garment
workers‘ support organizations in ten different locations in Asia,
Europe and Mexico.

* Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action
research in order to better understand and resist the negative
impact of globalization on labour.

* Ensures that workers‘ voices reach those who are already trying
to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.

* Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new
forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the
global garment industry.

* Bridges the gap between activist and academic research,
improving the conversation between these two groups.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.

List of Tables.

List of Boxes.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

1 Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry (Jane
Wills with Angela Hale).

2 The Changing Face of the Global Garment Industry (Jennifer
Hurley with Doug Miller).

3 Organising and Networking in Support of Garment Workers
(Angela Hale).

4 Action Research. Tracing the Threads of Labour in the Global
Garment Industry (Jane Wills with Jennifer Hurley).

5 Unravelling the Web. Supply Chains and Workers‘ Lives in the
Garment Industry (Jennifer Hurley).

6 Coming Undone. The Implications of Garment Industry
Subcontracting for UK Workers (Camille Warren).

7 The Impact of Full-package Production in Mexico’s Blue Jean
Capital (Lynda Yanz with Bob Jeffcott).

8 Defending Workers‘ Rights in Subcontracted Workplaces
(Rohini Hensman, Women Working Worldwide).

9 The Phase-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement from the
Perspective of Workers (Angela Hale with Maggie Burns).

10 Conclusion (Angela Hale with Jane Will).

References.

Index.

Über den Autor

Angela Hale is Director of Women Working Worldwide, an NGO
based at Manchester Metropolitan University. She previously
lectured in sociology at the university and has published many
articles relating to women workers. Women Working Worldwide works
with a network of trade unions and NGOs supporting the rights of
workers in international supply chains producing consumer goods for
the world market.

Jane Wills is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary,
University of London and a board member of Women Working Worldwide.
Her previous publications include Dissident Geographies: An
Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practices (2000), Place,
Space and the New Labour Internationalisms (Blackwell
Publishing, 2001) and Union Futures: Building Networked Trade
Unionism in the UK (2002).