The Sweatshop Epidemic
Is there a Cure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6092946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Appelbaum (0000-0002-8370-1851), Richard P Appelbaum (0000-0003-4097-9850, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 104-113 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Labor Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1095-7960 • E-ISSN: 1557-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1095760600666785 |
| OpenAlex | W2074854666 |
| Language | EN |
has been nearly a decade since 71 young garment workers from Thailand escaped from slave labor in a garment factory in El Monte, an urban suburb of Los Angeles. That scandalous event some of the women had been in captivity for as long as seven years, sewing clothing for Montgomery Ward, BUM Pacific, and other well-known companies focused national attention on sweatshop production in the apparel industry. Because the apparel industry is so labor intensive, factories can be opened with little capital investment
Ancient history · Business · Capital investment · Clothing · Clothing industry · Economics · Fishing · Fishing village · Market economy · Political science · Sweatshop · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · Law · Finance
| Highly cited | No |
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