Unmaking the Global Sweatshop Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers

"[A] welcome contribution to debates on how to achieve decent working and living conditions in the current system of transnational production. The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together leading anthropologists and scholars from across the social sciences who are renowned for their research on workers' roles in the global garment industry...[T]his book will interest academics, activists and other practitioners in the garment industry who seek fresh ideas in thinking about the way forward." (South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies) "Unmaking the Global Sweatshop offers important insights on the issue of health and safety in the garments industry. The book successfully shows the need for a broader understanding of the issue of health and safety beyond the crucial but insufficient focus on building safety and design. The book shows the need to go beyond focusing only on the physical aspects of health and safety in the workplace into a broader understanding of mental and physical health and well-being in the workplace and beyond...In addition to researchers and students working on labour issues, the book can be useful for trade unionists, NGOs and labour activists dealing with the issue of labour in GVCs." (Competition & Change) "A first-rate and necessary book. In compiling the analyses of northern and southern scholars across the social sciences, Unmaking the Global Sweatshop provides original insights into the global supply chain and innovative approaches to general questions of power relationships and workers' health and safety writ large." (Lance A. Compa, Cornell University) "Using the unifying theme of health and safety, the editors open a wide-ranging study of power relations in the supply-chain system and on factory floors. Each chapter brings a unique perspective to these issues and provokes new ways of thinking about them." (Susan L. Kang, City University of New York)