Sweatshop Capital
Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century
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2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3279-3 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3279-3 (ISBN)
Beth Robinson examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well the labor and social movements that contested them.
In Sweatshop Capital, Beth Robinson examines the brutal sweatshop labor conditions that produced American consumer goods from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well the labor and social movements that contested them. Arguing that sweatshop labor is a persistent feature of capitalism, she shows how manufacturers used both their influence in government and their mobility to side-step US labor laws, maximize profits, and perpetuate abuses. She outlines how workers and their allies routinely confronted manufacturers by building solidarity networks across race, class, and national lines. Drawing on activists’ literature, news accounts, archival sources, and oral histories, Robinson presents the long history of the anti-sweatshop movements that responded to American capital’s pursuit of profit through hyper-exploitation with a wide range of protest, legal action, and creativity. Beginning with the sweatshops and reformers of the Progressive Era, Robinson moves through the Great Depression and the activism of the Popular Front, the “free trade” globalization of the 1990s and its discontents, and, finally, the global cyber and gig economies of the twenty-first century and the growing movements to reel them in.
In Sweatshop Capital, Beth Robinson examines the brutal sweatshop labor conditions that produced American consumer goods from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well the labor and social movements that contested them. Arguing that sweatshop labor is a persistent feature of capitalism, she shows how manufacturers used both their influence in government and their mobility to side-step US labor laws, maximize profits, and perpetuate abuses. She outlines how workers and their allies routinely confronted manufacturers by building solidarity networks across race, class, and national lines. Drawing on activists’ literature, news accounts, archival sources, and oral histories, Robinson presents the long history of the anti-sweatshop movements that responded to American capital’s pursuit of profit through hyper-exploitation with a wide range of protest, legal action, and creativity. Beginning with the sweatshops and reformers of the Progressive Era, Robinson moves through the Great Depression and the activism of the Popular Front, the “free trade” globalization of the 1990s and its discontents, and, finally, the global cyber and gig economies of the twenty-first century and the growing movements to reel them in.
Beth Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xiii
Introduction 1
1. “The Struggle Has but Begun”: The Labor Feminism of the Progressive Error 13
2. “Don’t Overlook Any Channel for Publicity”: The Solidarity of the Popular Front 47
3. “Settle the Case, or We’ll Be in Your Face”: The Worldview of the Global Justice Movement 77
4. “Amazon Crime”: The Omnipresence of the New Global Assembly Line 109
Conclusion 149
Notes 159
Bibliography 193
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3279-0 / 1478032790 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3279-3 / 9781478032793 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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