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Unraveled : the life and death of a garment / by Bédat, Maxine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dying and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come"--
Subjects: Clothing trade.; Labor and globalization.; Business logistics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Nobodies : modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy / by Bowe, John.(CARDINAL)554012;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
Subjects: Slave labor; Equality; Globalization;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Open talent : leveraging the global workforce to solve your biggest challenges / by Winsor, John,1959-author.(CARDINAL)750057; Paik, Jin H.,author.(CARDINAL)883907;
"As the pandemic waned, we returned to sparsely populated offices and empty conference rooms. Our working life had been transformed, seemingly overnight. But the truth is that the ever-growing digital wave has long been breaking down organizational boundaries and increasing open innovation, including the use of crowdsourcing platforms as a talent solution. Now the imperative is clear: adapt to and leverage this new, digitally enabled world of "open talent"-or get left behind. In this eye-opening, essential guidebook for the new world of work, John Winsor and Jin Paik, leaders at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, show how the massive reset of the pandemic allowed talented workers everywhere to exit their jobs without leaving the workforce. Now some are freelancing for multiple companies or starting small businesses, leaving hiring managers scratching their heads over a workforce gone AWOL. What's more, talent has more power than ever using platforms such as Freelancer.com, Fiverr, and Upwork, setting their own terms for work: what, where, when, and at what price. How can companies adapt? The key, the authors argue, is shifting to a more "distributed" idea of the organization that revolves around talent (people) and projects, not divisions and offices. In this new model, which the authors call a networked organization, talent is culled from both inside and outside the organization, dispensing with siloed approaches to talent acquisition and instead viewing talent through a single lens: as a global ecosystem that can be tapped as needed. With rich stories, keen insights, and an abundance of practical advice, Winsor and Paik provide a new framework and operating model for transforming your organization into a talent-orchestrating, problem-solving machine"--
Subjects: Ability.; Business logistics; Business networks.; Information storage and retrieval systems; Labor and globalization.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Looking south : race, gender, and the transformation of labor from reconstruction to globalization / by Frederickson, Mary E.(CARDINAL)312403;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.Introduction : labor transformation and networks of resistance -- Labor, race, and Homer Plessy's freedom claim -- Transformation and resistance : a war of images in the post-Plessy south -- "I got so mad, I just had to get something off my chest" : the contested terrain of women's organizations in the American south -- Beyond heroines and girl strikers : gender and organized labor in the south -- Labor looks south : theory and practice in southern textile organizing -- "Living in two worlds" : civil rights and southern textiles -- Transformation and resistance in the nueva new south -- Back to the future : mapping workers across the global south -- Coda : southern workers on the world stage.
Subjects: Labor market; African Americans; Women; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Globalization; Women.; Womyn.;
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Globalization, employment and the workplace : diverse impacts / by Debrah, Yaw A.,1956-(CARDINAL)119973; Smith, Ian G.(CARDINAL)176227; Cardiff Business School.Employment Research Unit.(CARDINAL)214478;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Foreign trade and employment; Globalization; International business enterprises; International labor activities; Labor market; Free trade;
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Low pay, high profile : the global push for fair labor / by Ross, Andrew,1956-(CARDINAL)771306;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index.
Subjects: Anti-globalization movement.; Foreign trade and employment.; Foreign trade and employment; Labor movement.; Sweatshops.; Wages; Wages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The new ruthless economy : work & power in the digital age / by Head, Simon.(CARDINAL)269630;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211) and index.
Subjects: Capitalism; Business ethics; Industrial management; Compensation management; Labor economics; Globalization;
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Exporting America : why corporate greed is shipping American jobs overseas / by Dobbs, Lou.(CARDINAL)539601;
Assault on middle-class Americans -- What right to work? -- Working against ourselves -- Globalization -- The high cost of free trade -- The exporters -- The myths of outsourcing and free trade -- For the people? -- A simple choice -- Finding the solutions.
Subjects: Unemployment; Labor market; Contracting out; Corporations; Investments, Foreign, and employment; Foreign trade and employment; Globalization.; Free trade.; Labor supply.; Consumption (Economics); Consumer behavior; Unemployment.;
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Globalization and the politics of pay : policy choices in the American states / by Hansen, Susan B.(CARDINAL)278382;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
Subjects: Wages; Wages; Labor policy; Working class; Globalization;
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The cost of globalization : dangers to the earth and its people / by Kunnie, Julian.(CARDINAL)382348;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labor and are subject to violence"--
Subjects: Globalization; Globalization; Externalities (Economics); Anti-globalization movement.; Anti-poverty movements; Poverty.; Social justice.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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