The Sweatshop Regime
This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India. Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, the book theorises the garment sweatshop in India as a complex 'regime' of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local actors, composed of factory and non-factory settings, and working across productive and reproductive realms. The analysis shows the tight correspondence between the physical and social materiality of garment production in India; illustrates the great social differentiation and complex patterns of labour unfreedom at work in the industry; and depicts the sweatshop as a composite 'joint enterprise' against the labouring body, which is inexorably depleted and consumed by garment work, even in the absence of major industrial disasters. By placing labour at the centre of the analysis of processes of development and globalisation, the book critically engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.
- Analyses the different circuits of exploitation consumers 'wear' on a daily basis
- Engages critically with contemporary debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism
Product details
April 2020Paperback
9781108799249
258 pages
230 × 153 × 20 mm
0.5kg
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Table of Contents
- List of tables, figures and pictures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The chain and the sweatshop
- 2. The commodity and the sweatshop
- 3. Difference and the sweatshop
- 4. The regional lord and the sweatshop
- 5. The broker and the sweatshop
- 6. The body and the sweatshop
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Index.