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Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century

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Availability:In StockContributor:Beth RobinsonPublish date:11/11/2025Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032793ISBN-10:1478032790UPC:9781478032793Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Activism & Social Justice, Women's StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCXD1AY9NQ
In Sweatshop Capital, Beth Robinson examines the brutal sweatshop labor conditions that produced American consumer goods from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. Arguing that sweatshop labor is a persistent feature of capitalism, she shows how manufacturers used both their influence in government and their mobility to sidestep US labor laws, maximize profits, and perpetuate abuses. She outlines how workers and their allies routinely confronted manufacturers by building solidarity networks across race, class, and national lines. Drawing on activists' literature, news accounts, archival sources, and oral histories, Robinson presents the long history of the antisweatshop movements that responded to American capital's pursuit of profit through hyperexploitation with a wide range of protest, legal action, and creativity. Beginning with the sweatshops and reformers of the Progressive Era, Robinson moves through the Great Depression and the activism of the Popular Front, the "free trade" globalization of the 1990s and its discontents, and, finally, the global cyber and gig economies of the twenty-first century and the growing movements to rein them in.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032793ISBN-10:1478032790UPC:9781478032793Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Activism & Social Justice, Women's StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCXD1AY9NQ
Beth Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at St. Catherine University.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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