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Author Collins, Jane Lou, 1954-

Title Threads : gender, labor, and power in the global apparel industry / Jane L. Collins.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  HD6073.C62 U537 2003    Available  ---
Description xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
Contents Tracing the threads of a global industry -- The emergence of a twenty-first century apparel industry -- Tultex: mass-producing knitwear in southern Virginia -- Liz Claiborne Incorporated: developing a global production network -- On the shop floor in Aguascalientes -- Local labor and global capital -- From gilded age to new deal?
Subject Women clothing workers -- Virginia -- Martinsville.
Women clothing workers.
Virginia -- Martinsville.
Knit goods industry -- Virginia -- Martinsville -- Employees.
Knit goods industry.
Employees.
Clothing workers -- Virginia -- Martinsville.
Clothing workers.
Clothing trade -- United States.
Clothing trade.
United States.
Consumers -- United States -- Attitudes.
Consumers.
Women clothing workers -- Mexico -- Aguascalientes.
Mexico -- Aguascalientes.
Knit goods industry -- Mexico -- Aguascalientes -- Employees.
Clothing workers -- Mexico -- Aguascalientes.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Case studies.
Mexico.
International business enterprises -- United States -- Case studies.
International business enterprises.
Liz Claiborne Inc.
Liz Claiborne Inc.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Added Title Gender, labor, and power in the global apparel industry
ISBN 0226113728 paperback alkaline paper
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