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Annie Shapiro and the clothing workers' strike / by Brill, Marlene Targ.(CARDINAL)751694;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).Recounts Annie Shapiro's experiences during the 1910-1911 Garment Workers' Strike in Chicago.660LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Shapiro, Annie (Shapiro Glick); Shapiro, Annie (Shapiro Glick); Women clothing workers; Women in the labor movement; Strikes and lockouts; Garment Workers' Strike, Chicago, 1910-1911.;
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Where am I wearing? : a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / by Timmerman, Kelsey,1979-(CARDINAL)492320;
Includes bibliographical references.Prologue: We have it made -- A consumer goes global -- Tattoo's tropical paradise -- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors -- Jingle these -- Undercover in the underwear biz -- Bangladesh amusement park -- Inside my first sweatshop -- Child labor in action -- Arifa, the garment worker -- Hope -- No black and white, only green -- (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices -- Labor day -- Year zero -- Those who wear Levi's -- Those who make Levi's -- Blue jean machine -- Progress -- Treasure and trash -- (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis -- PO'ed VP -- Life at the bottom -- Growing pains -- The real China -- On a budget -- An all-American Chinese Walmart -- The Chinese fantasy -- (Update for revised edition) Migration -- For richer, for poorer -- (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again -- Return to fantasy island -- Amilcar's journey -- An American dream -- Touron goes glocal -- Appendix A: Discussion questions -- Appendix B: Note to freshman me -- Appendix C: Where are you teaching? : a guide to taking Where am I wearing? to a glocal context."A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. By introducing readers to the human element of globalization--the factory workers, their names, their families, and their way of life--Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between global producers and consumers. New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoe factory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on how workers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs and declining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; and the author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspired the first edition of the book Kelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Conde; Nast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR. Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am I Wearing? puts a human face on globalization"--
Subjects: Clothing trade.; Clothing workers.; Wages; Consumers;
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Clothiers / by Franck, Irene M.(CARDINAL)138739; Brownstone, David M.(CARDINAL)141094;
Bibliography: pages 157-164.Examines the role in history of the occupations involved with the making of cloth and clothing including spinners, weavers, cloth finishers, tailors and dressmakers, milliners, hatters, and shoemakers and other leatherworkers.
Subjects: Job descriptions.; Clothing workers; Clothing workers; Clothing workers; Occupations;
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Where am I wearing? : a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / by Timmerman, Kelsey,1979-(CARDINAL)492320;
1: The mission -- A consumer goes global -- Tattoo's tropical paradise -- Fake blood, sweat, and tears: anti-sweatshop protestors -- 2: My underwear: made in Bangladesh -- Jingle these -- Undercover in the underwear biz -- Bangladesh amusement park -- Inside my first sweatshop -- Child labor in action -- Arifa, the garment worker -- Hope -- No black and white, only green -- 3: My pants: made in Cambodia -- Labor Day -- Year zero -- Those who wear Levi's -- Those who make Levi's -- Progress -- Treasure and trash -- 4: My flip-flops: made in China -- PO'ed VP -- Margaritaville -- Life at the bottom -- Growing pains -- The real China -- On a budget -- An all-American Chinese Wal-Mart -- The Chinese fantasy -- 5: My shorts: Made in the USA -- For richer, for poorer -- Untold stories -- Where are you wearing? The inexact science of finding out where your clothes were produced.
Subjects: Clothing trade.; Clothing workers.; Wages; Consumers; Globalization.;
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Sidney Hillman, great American. by Gould, Jean,1909-1993.(CARDINAL)148382;
Includes bibliography.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946.; Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.;
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A Needle, a bobbin, a strike : women needleworkers in America / by Jensen, Joan M.(CARDINAL)151549; Davidson, Sue,1925-2016.(CARDINAL)164573;
Includes bibliographies and index.1660L
Subjects: Women clothing workers; Strikes and lockouts; Clothing workers;
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Triangle / by Weber, Katharine,1955-;
MARCIVE 12/19/07The last living survivor of a 1911 sweatshop fire, 106-year-old Esther Gottesfeld passes away leaving numerous questions about the fire, which is investigated by her granddaughter Rebecca and a feminist historian with a personal agenda.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Triangle Shirtwaist Company; Women clothing workers;
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Triangle [large print] / by Weber, Katharine,1955-;
Esther Gottesfeld is the last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and has told her story countless times in the span of her lifetime. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions about what happened that fateful day. How did she manage to survive the fire when at least 146 workers, most of them women, her sister and fiancé among them, burned or jumped to their deaths from the sweatshop inferno? Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections of that terrible day? Esther's granddaughter Rebecca Gottesfeld, with her partner George Botkin, an ingenious composer, seek to unravel the facts of the matter while Ruth Zion, a zealous feminist historian of the fire, bores in on them with her own mole-like agenda. A brilliant, haunting novel about one of the most terrible tragedies in early-twentieth-century America, Triangle forces us to consider how we tell our stories, how we hear them, and how history is forged from unverifiable truths.
Subjects: Large print books.; Historical fiction.; Triangle Shirtwaist Company; Women clothing workers;
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"Sweatshops" in the U.S. : opinions on their extent and possible enforcement options : briefing report to the Honorable Charles E. Schumer, House of Representatives / by United States.General Accounting Office.(CARDINAL)155659; Schumer, Charles E.(CARDINAL)220162;
"Related GAO products": page 60.
Subjects: Sweatshops; Clothing workers; Labor laws and legislation;
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Worn out : how our clothes cover up fashion's sins / by Hardy, Alyssa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.New arrivals -- Made in America -- Where was fashion's #MeToo? -- The illusion of choice -- Influenced -- The secret behind the logo -- Green is the new black -- Outside the factory -- "It's not that serious" -- These stories are real."An insider's look at how the rise of "fast fashion" obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers"--
Subjects: Clothing trade; Clothing workers; Work environment.; Consumption (Economics); Social responsibility of business.; Fashion design;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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