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rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to
Global Labor Challenges

This edited book covers a variety of topics related to
ethical fashion. An overview of global labor issues is
provided from diverse perspectives. Case studies are
detailed of how well-known brands, apparel and footwear
and other sectors, are handling these challenges.

Hartman, L. P., Arnold, D. G. and Wokutch, R. E. (eds.).
(2003) Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to
Global Labor Challenges, Westport, CT: Praeger.

Social responsibility in the Global Apparel Industry

This book introduces the social and environmental issues in
apparel production, analysing how corporate strategy and
decisions can improve social responsibility. Readers learn
how leading apparel and footwear brands and retailers
are attempting to solve complex problems including child
labour, harassment and abuse, discrimination, excessive
hours of work, low wages, poor factory health and safety,
and negative impacts on the environment. The authors
draw on their industry and research experience to provide
tools for changing the apparel industry by providing
industry professionals with the awareness, knowledge and
passion to make it more socially responsible.

Dickson, M. A., Loker, S., and Eckman, M. (2008) Social
Responsibility in the Global Apparel Industry, New York:
Fairchild Books.

Social responsibility in the Global Market:
Fair Trade of Cultural Products

This book examines fair trade as it relates to textile
products that are developed and distributed by fair
(alternative) trade organisations in North America. An
introduction to fair trade is provided and the authors
examine how artisan producers gain income, justice and
empowerment through participation in fair trade. Case
studies are provided of major fair trade organisations,
including Ten Thousand Villages and MarketPlace: Handwork
of India. As well, detailed understanding is provided of the
artisans who produce fair trade products and consumers
in the developed world who buy the fair trade products.
A future-oriented discussion addresses challenges faced by
fair trade organisations if they are to be successful in the

future, including the need to more systematically document

the impacts the business has on artisan producers. A

longer review of this book can be found at http://www.

huec.lsu.edu/esrab/downloads/Book%20review_Social%20

Responsibility%20in%20the%20Global%20Market_

KateCarroll605.pdf.

Littrell, M. A., and Dickson, M. A. (1999) Social Responsibility

in the Global Market: Fair Trade of Cultural Products, Thousand

Oaks, CA: Sage.

Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical

and Global Perspective

This volume offers multiple perspectives on “sweatshop

studies” of diverse scholars and activists. The editors

aim to provide historical accounts of the conditions that

surrounded achievement of social and economic change.

Chapters are contributed by scholars in sociology, history,

political science, women’s studies and American and

ethnic studies and these are organised into three sections:

“Producing the Sweatshop,” “Sweatshop Migration,” and

“Sweatshop Resistance.” The book synthesises relevant facts

from the past 100+ years and thought-provoking ideas that

are useful for developing strategies for improving working

conditions in today’s complex global supply chains. A longer

review of this book can be found at http://www.huec.lsu.

edu/esrab/downloads/BookReviewDicksonSweatshop%20

USA04.pdf.

Bender, D. E., and Greenwald, R. A. (Eds.) (2003), Sweatshop

USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global

Perspective, New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge).