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Students Against Sweatshops Liza Featherstone

Students Against Sweatshops By Liza Featherstone

Students Against Sweatshops by Liza Featherstone


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Summary

This volume is both a record of a new mass campaign, and a tool for the realization of its goals. Written by students, it uses interviews, analysis and graphics to consider issues such as: what is a sweatshop?; and students' role in broader movements against unfair trade and sweated labour.

Students Against Sweatshops Summary

Students Against Sweatshops by Liza Featherstone

United Students Against Sweatshops heads a wave of anti-sweatshop organizing that has reached over one hundred American college campuses in the past four years. From the Northeast to the Southwest, public and private, large and small universities, their campaigns have wreaked havoc on the corporate campus and ruffled multinational companies whose profits depend on young consumers; they have also led to a more broadly based engagement with issues of social justice and provide a potential model for transnational student/worker solidarity.

Students Against Sweatshops Reviews

Everybody wants to make a living wage. Everybody wants to be able to take care of themselves and their family, everybody wants to retire and feel good, enjoy life, breathe. Live. Eat. - Sheri Davis, Ohio State University Campus activism lives! This inspiring and lucid account of the work of United Students against Sweatshops proves it. Blending commitment and analysis, Featherstone tells us why USAS is about much more than caps and t-shirts -- it's about worker's rights, women's rights, challenging the corporatization of the university, and establishing a fair world order. - Katha Pollitt As vividly as any documentary film, Students Against Sweatshops captures the gusto and political savvy of a student movement that has made its impact in every corner of the global economy. Nor does this indispensable book pull any punches; its bold commentary will hit home where it needs to be heard. - Andrew Ross Here are the inspiring voices of our democracy - young people daring to question authority and confront power. These are the Thomas Paines, Sojourner Truths, Fredrick Douglasses and Mother Joneses of our times. America needs them more than ever. - Jim Hightower An inspiring story of how students are making history today. - Tom Hayden

About Liza Featherstone

Liza Featherstone is a New York City journalist who has written extensively about student and youth organizing. She is a frequent contributor to the Nation, Newsday and the Washington Post.

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GOR009388295
9781859843024
1859843026
Students Against Sweatshops by Liza Featherstone
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Verso Books
20020524
130
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