Mirjam Muller (Assistan Assistant Professor in Feminist Philosophy

Global Sweatshops

A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Feminist Philosophy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780197767207
• ISBN-10: 0197767206
• Artikelnr.: 69631637

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Shut Down the Mills"
0.1. A Feminist Critique of Sweatshop Labour
0.2. Why Sweatshop Labour?
0.3. Plan of The Book
Chapter One. 'Cheap Clothes and Nasty' - Modern Sweatshop Labour
1.1. Sweatshop Labour as A Frame of Analysis
1.2. Modern Sweatshops
1.3. Global Capitalism, Imperialism and Sweatshop Labour
1.4. Differences In (Global) Production
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter Two. Towards A Structural Approach to Sweatshop Labour
2.1. Micro-Level Perspectives on Sweatshop Labour
2.2. Social Structures
2.3. Challenges to Micro-Level Perspectives
2.4. Challenges for A Structural Analysis of Sweatshop Labour
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter Three. A Marxist Feminist Approach to Sweatshop Labour
3.1. Marx on Exploitation and Capitalism
3.2. Towards A Normative Reconstruction of Exploitation
3.3. Key Characteristics of Marxist/Socialist Feminist Perspectives
3.4 Conclusion
Chapter Four. Exploitation, Marginalisation and Disposability
4.1. Sweatshop Labour Relations from A Structural Perspective
4.2. Structural Vulnerability
4.3. Structural Vulnerability and Relative Power in Sweatshop Labour
4.4. Structural Exploitation
4.5. Reproducing Exploitation
4.6. The Normative Critique of Sweatshop Labour
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter Five. Responsibility For Sweatshop Labour
5.1. Moral Responsibility for Sweatshop Labour?
5.2. The Grounds of Political Responsibility: Social Connections
5.3. Taking Up Political Responsibility
5.4. The Moral Status of Political Responsibility
5.5. Responsibility in Practice
Conclusion. Transnational Resistance and Solidarity
6.1. Responsibility and Practices of Solidarity
6.2. Resistance, Responsibility and Solidarity
6.3. Transnational Solidarity: Practices and Institutions
Bibliography
Index