Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops

Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory...
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Author: Sarah Adler-Milstein
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Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops by Adler-Milstein, Sarah

Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops

$54.79

Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops

$54.79
Author: Sarah Adler-Milstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union--all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria.

The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry's usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers' stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt's production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited family; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry's sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.

Author: Sarah Adler-Milstein, John M. Kline
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520292925


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2018

About the Author
Sarah Adler-Milstein is a worker-rights advocate and has served as Field Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Worker Rights Consortium.

John M. Kline is Professor of International Business Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is the author of four books, including the textbook Ethics for International Business.

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