gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women workers' rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ascoly, Nina > (ed.)
- Creator
- Finney, Chantal > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Vlasblom, Annelies
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, economie, industrie, bedrijven, kleding, migratie
- Description
- When the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) came onto the scene in Europe in the early 1990s, one of the things motivating those mainly female activists was a desire to make people aware of the fact that almost universally it was women who were making our clothes under bad conditions, and that there were reasons for that it was no coincidence that women were stitching our garments or gluing our sneakers together, whether it was in the Philippines, Indonesia, India or China. Clean Clothes Campaigners wanted the public to know that exploited labour in these industries often had a female face, and if something was going to be done about their situation that fact couldn’t be ignored.