Students Against Sweatshops
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United Students Against Sweatshops heads a wave of anti-sweatshop organizing that has reached over two hundred American college campuses in the past four years. From the northeast to the southwest, at public and private, large and small universities, their campaigns have wreaked havoc on the corporate campus and ruffled multinational companies whose profits depend on young consumers; they have also led to a more broadly based engagement with issues of social justice and provide a potential model for transnational student/worker solidarity.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1859843026
ISBN13:9781859843024
Release Date:June 2002
Publisher:Verso
Length:130 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 7.6"
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Even if you think you know........
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
What is the Anti-Sweatshop Movement? How to work for social justice? This compact and highly readible book is filled with a wealth of information and workable strategies. Written by an incisive and expert author/journalist, Liza Featherstone, and voices of USAS activists in the movement from across the U.S, they address these pressing questions. The book presents a nicely woven analysis and plenty of concrete and heart wrentching examples that amply illustrate what kind of plague global corporate dynamics are imposing on much of the world, and, most importantly, what to do about it. The book describes who is the USAS and what they are all about, how they are fighting back and making significant gains, and how to plug in. The author (and the USAS) does not flinch from grappling with complex issues: how to do local work and link it to powerful global dynamics and actors; how to draw upon past activism and how to move beyond it; how to deal with thorny issues--such as racial dynmanics, ideology, and other potentially divisive issues in any movement--as they play out in the USAS. In short, this is a must read for anyone interested in the forces and faces changing our world today. BUY IT NOW!!
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