Garment Production & Trade
(see also Textile Production & Trade)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
International Textile, Garment & Leather Workers' Federation.
US Labor Education in the Americas (US/LEAP).
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Anon. Profiting from Green Consumerism in Germany: Opportunities for Developing Countries in Three Sectors: Leather & Footwear, Textiles & Clothing, & Furniture (NY: UN, 1999).
Aremu, Issa. The National Union of Textile, Garment & Tailoring Workers of Nigeria: The Social Relevance of Trade Unionism (Lagos: Malthouse, 2001).
Berry, Heidi (ed.) Sweatshops: Clothes. The Real Cost of the Clothes You Buy (Victoria BC: Videa, 1999).
Carrillo, Teresa. Women, Trade Unions & New Social Movements in Mexico: The "19th of September" Garment Workers' Union (?, 1990).
Esbenshade, Jill. Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers & the Global Apparel Industry (Philadelphia: Temple, 2004).
Fung, Archon; Dara O'Rourke & Charles Sabel. Can We Put An End to Sweatshops? (Boston: Beacon, 2001).
MacLean, Nancy. The Culture of Resistance: Female Institution Building in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1900-1925 (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan, 1982).
Rosen, Ellen Israel. Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the US Apparel Industry (Berkeley: U. of California, 2002).
Tyler, Gus. Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995).