Sweatshop Regime - Labouring Bodies, Exploitation, and Garments Made in India

This book explores the processes producing and reproducing the garment sweatshop in India.

List 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.

About the author

Alessandra Mezzadri teaches in the department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interests focus on globalisation and processes of labour informalisation; materialist approaches to global commodity chain analysis and global industrial systems, labour standards and CSR; gender and feminist theory; and the political economy of India. She has investigated in depth the Indian garment industry over a span of ten years, and illustrated the different ways in which distinct regional sweatshops are formed and reproduced across the Subcontinent.

Summary

This 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. It engages with key debates on industrial modernity, modern slavery, and ethical consumerism.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandra Mezzadri, Alessandra (School of Oriental and Afric Mezzadri, Alessandra (School of Oriental and African Studies Mezzadri, Mezzadri Alessandra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107116962
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11696-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains; Development Trajectories in Gl; Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains; Development Trajectories in Gl
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government