Description: Sweatshop 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. This book develops an intersectional feminist critique of the working conditions in sweatshops by analysing the role of gender, race, and migration status in bringing about and justifying the exploitation of workers on factory floors. Based on this analysis, the book argues that sweatshop workers are structurally vulnerable to exploitation in virtue of their position as gendered, racialized, and migrant workers within global supply chains. While this exploitation benefits powerful actors along global supply chains, it also creates spaces of resistance and structural transformation.
Review Quotes: "Global Sweatshops is a theoretically robust and politically engaged academic work. Its analysis of structural injustice, transnational responsibility, and modes of resistance reflects a deep normative commitment and strong philosophical insight. The book will be especially valuable for scholars and researchers in feminist sociology, feminist economics, global justice theory, labor ethics, development studies, anthropology, Marxist theory, and postcolonial studies." -- Tingting Hu, Affilia
"Global Sweatshops: A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance is a rich, stimulating, and insightful analysis of the ethics of sweatshop labor." -- Michael Kates, Ethics