Unmaking the Global Sweatshop : : Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers / / Rebecca Prentice, Geert De Neve.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2016-2019
• HerausgeberIn: De Neve, Geert,; Prentice, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 3 illus.

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry to examine the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety. Contributors analyze both the labor processes required of garment workers as well as the global dynamics of outsourcing and subcontracting that produce such demands on workers' health. The accounts contained in Unmaking the Global Sweatshop trace the histories of labor standards for garment workers in the global South; explore recent partnerships between corporate, state, and civil society actors in pursuit of accountable corporate governance; analyze a breadth of initiatives that seek to improve workers' health standards, from ethical trade projects to human rights movements; and focus on the ways in which risk, health, and safety might be differently conceptualized and regulated. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop argues for an expansive understanding of garment workers' lived experiences that recognizes the politics of labor, human rights, the privatization and individualization of health-related responsibilities as well as the complexity of health and well-being.Contributors: Mark Anner, Hasan Ashraf, Jennifer Bair, Jeremy Blasi, Geert De Neve, Saydia Gulrukh, Ingrid Hagen-Keith, Sandya Hewamanne, Caitrin Lynch, Alessandra Mezzadri, Patrick Neveling, Florence Palpacuer, Rebecca Prentice, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Nazneen Shifa, Dina M. Siddiqi, Mahmudul H. Sumon.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Garment Workers’ Health and Safety -- 1. Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today -- 2. Voluntary Versus Binding Forms of Regulation in Global Production Networks: Exploring the “Paradoxes of Partnership” in the European Anti-Sweatshop Movement -- 3. Sourcing Ethical Fashion for Collegiate Apparel: “School House” Lessons in Business and Ethics -- 4. Capital over Labor: Health and Safety in Export Processing Zone Garment Production since 1947 -- 5. Discourses of Compensation and the Normalization of Negligence: The Experience of the Tazreen Factory Fire -- 6. Garment Sweatshop Regimes, the Laboring Body, and the Externalization of Social Responsibility over Health and Safety Provisions -- 7. Limited Leave? Clinical Provisioning and Healthy Bodies in Sri Lanka’s Apparel Sector -- 8. Toward Meaningful Health and Safety Measures: Stigma and the Devaluation of Garment Work in Sri Lanka’s Global Factories -- 9. Beyond Building Safety: An Ethnographic Account of Health and Well-Being on the Bangladesh Garment Shop Floor -- Afterword: Politics After Rana Plaza -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments