Global Sweatshops by Mirjam Mller - 9780197767207

Global SweatshopsA Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance\nAuthor(s): Mirjam Mller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197767207, 978-0197767207\nSynopsis\nSweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. Philosopher Mirjam Mller asks: Why are sweatshops so resistant to emancipatory transformation? How should we think about the relationship between class, gender, and race on the factory floor of sweatshops? What insights can be drawn from this for understanding the systematic relation between capitalism, gender oppression, and racial oppression? Does sweatshop labour raise distinct normative concerns compared to other forms of wage labour? \n\nMller answers these questions by developing a feminist critique of working conditions in the g.