Book description
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.
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).
