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Author Paleczny, Barbara.

Title Clothed in Integrity : Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry.

Publication Info. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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Description 1 online resource (387 pages)
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Summary Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes global trends. The resurgence of sweatshops affects the working poor in both first- and third-world countries. Paleczny assesses the responsibility of transnational retailers for unacceptable wages and working conditions and describes historic shifts in the global context of garment production. After exploring systemic causes of poverty, relevant policy setting, and ethical foundations, Paleczn.
Contents Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I: Identifying Relations of Ruling and Solidarity; Part II: Constructing Feminist Socio-economic Ethics as Transformative Theology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Clothing trade -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clothing trade -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clothing trade.
Women clothing workers -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Women clothing workers.
Ontario -- Toronto.
Home labor -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Home labor.
Christian ethics.
Christian ethics.
Feminist theology.
Feminist theology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Paleczny, Barbara. Clothed in Integrity : Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889203402
ISBN 9780889206564 (electronic book)
0889206562 (electronic book)

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