Global Sweatshops

A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance

AvMirjam Müller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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. Philosopher Mirjam Müller asks: Why are sweatshops so resistant to emancipatory transformation? How should we think about the relationship between class, gender, and race on the factory floor of sweatshops? What insights can be drawn from this for understanding the systematic relation between capitalism, gender oppression, and racial oppression? Does sweatshop labour raise distinct normative concerns compared to other forms of wage labour? Müller answers these questions by developing a feminist critique of working conditions in the global textile industry that draws on work in feminist, Marxist, post-/decolonial, and critical race theory. She shows how sweatshop labour is embedded in historically specific structures of global capitalism that raise unique normative concerns. The book provides a normative and practical account that highlights spaces of resistance, as well as the responsibility of actors implicated in sweatshop labour relations to work towards structural change. Based on this analysis, Müller 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-04
Mått:156 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:800 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Feminist Philosophy
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197767191

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Mirjam Müller is Assistant Professor in Feminist Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin. Before coming to Humboldt University Berlin, she was a teaching fellow in political philosophy at King's College London, a postdoctoral fellow at the Hoover Chair at UC Leuven and a postdoctoral fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Free University Berlin.

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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.

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Introduction: <"Shut Down the Mills> "0.1. A Feminist Critique of Sweatshop Labour0.2. Why Sweatshop Labour?0.3. Plan of The BookChapter One. 'Cheap Clothes and Nasty' - Modern Sweatshop Labour1.1. Sweatshop Labour as A Frame of Analysis1.2. Modern Sweatshops1.3. Global Capitalism, Imperialism and Sweatshop Labour1.4. Differences In (Global) Production1.5 ConclusionChapter Two. Towards A Structural Approach to Sweatshop Labour2.1. Micro-Level Perspectives on Sweatshop Labour2.2. Social Structures2.3. Challenges to Micro-Level Perspectives2.4. Challenges for A Structural Analysis of Sweatshop Labour2.5 ConclusionChapter Three. A Marxist Feminist Approach to Sweatshop Labour3.1. Marx on Exploitation and Capitalism3.2. Towards A Normative Reconstruction of Exploitation3.3. Key Characteristics of Marxist/Socialist Feminist Perspectives3.4 ConclusionChapter Four. Exploitation, Marginalisation and Disposability4.1. Sweatshop Labour Relations from A Structural Perspective4.2. Structural Vulnerability4.3. Structural Vulnerability and Relative Power in Sweatshop Labour4.4. Structural Exploitation4.5. Reproducing Exploitation4.6. The Normative Critique of Sweatshop Labour4.7 ConclusionChapter Five. Responsibility For Sweatshop Labour5.1. Moral Responsibility for Sweatshop Labour?5.2. The Grounds of Political Responsibility: Social Connections5.3. Taking Up Political Responsibility5.4. The Moral Status of Political Responsibility5.5. Responsibility in PracticeConclusion. Transnational Resistance and Solidarity6.1. Responsibility and Practices of Solidarity6.2. Resistance, Responsibility and Solidarity6.3. Transnational Solidarity: Practices and Institutions BibliographyIndex