The Sweatshop Regime : Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments Made in India Paperback / softback
by Alessandra (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Mezzadri
Part of the Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India.
Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms.
The analysis shows the tight correspondence between the physical and social materiality of garment production in India; illustrates the great social differentiation and complex patterns of labour unfreedom at work in the industry; and depicts the sweatshop as a composite 'joint enterprise' against the labouring body, which is inexorably depleted and consumed by garment work, even in the absence of major industrial disasters.
By placing labour at the centre of the analysis of processes of development and globalisation, the book critically engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781108799249
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108799249
