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Strategizing against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment
Temple University Press, 2020 Paper: 978-1-4399-1822-7 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-1821-0 | eISBN: 978-1-4399-1823-4 Library of Congress Classification HD2337.W55 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.256
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important. See other books on: Clothing trade | College students | Global Economy | Social justice | Student movements See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Strategizing against Sweatshops: The Global Economy, Student Activism, and Worker Empowerment
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Temple University Press, 2020
Paper: 978-1-4399-1822-7
Cloth: 978-1-4399-1821-0
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1823-4
Paper: 978-1-4399-1822-7
Cloth: 978-1-4399-1821-0
eISBN: 978-1-4399-1823-4
For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice.
Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct.
Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a model of political opportunity structure to show how social context shapes the chances of a movement’s success—and how movements can change that political opportunity structure in turn. Ultimately, he shows why progressive student activism remains important.
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