Global Sweatshops
by Mirjam M?llerFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2024-06-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press Academic US
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Author Biography
Mirjam Müller is Assistant Professor in Feminist Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin. Before coming to Humboldt University Berlin, she was a teaching fellow in political philosophy at King's College London, a postdoctoral fellow at the Hoover Chair at UC Leuven and a postdoctoral fellow at Justitia Amplificata at Free University Berlin.
Table of Contents
Introduction: "Shut Down the Mills"
0.1. A Feminist Critique of Sweatshop Labour
0.2. Why Sweatshop Labour?
0.3. Plan of The Book
Chapter One. 'Cheap Clothes and Nasty' - Modern Sweatshop Labour
1.1. Sweatshop Labour as A Frame of Analysis
1.2. Modern Sweatshops
1.3. Global Capitalism, Imperialism and Sweatshop Labour
1.4. Differences In (Global) Production
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter Two. Towards A Structural Approach to Sweatshop Labour
2.1. Micro-Level Perspectives on Sweatshop Labour
2.2. Social Structures
2.3. Challenges to Micro-Level Perspectives
2.4. Challenges for A Structural Analysis of Sweatshop Labour
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter Three. A Marxist Feminist Approach to Sweatshop Labour
3.1. Marx on Exploitation and Capitalism
3.2. Towards A Normative Reconstruction of Exploitation
3.3. Key Characteristics of Marxist/Socialist Feminist Perspectives
3.4 Conclusion
Chapter Four. Exploitation, Marginalisation and Disposability
4.1. Sweatshop Labour Relations from A Structural Perspective
4.2. Structural Vulnerability
4.3. Structural Vulnerability and Relative Power in Sweatshop Labour
4.4. Structural Exploitation
4.5. Reproducing Exploitation
4.6. The Normative Critique of Sweatshop Labour
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter Five. Responsibility For Sweatshop Labour
5.1. Moral Responsibility for Sweatshop Labour?
5.2. The Grounds of Political Responsibility: Social Connections
5.3. Taking Up Political Responsibility
5.4. The Moral Status of Political Responsibility
5.5. Responsibility in Practice
Conclusion. Transnational Resistance and Solidarity
6.1. Responsibility and Practices of Solidarity
6.2. Resistance, Responsibility and Solidarity
6.3. Transnational Solidarity: Practices and Institutions
Bibliography
Index
0.1. A Feminist Critique of Sweatshop Labour
0.2. Why Sweatshop Labour?
0.3. Plan of The Book
Chapter One. 'Cheap Clothes and Nasty' - Modern Sweatshop Labour
1.1. Sweatshop Labour as A Frame of Analysis
1.2. Modern Sweatshops
1.3. Global Capitalism, Imperialism and Sweatshop Labour
1.4. Differences In (Global) Production
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter Two. Towards A Structural Approach to Sweatshop Labour
2.1. Micro-Level Perspectives on Sweatshop Labour
2.2. Social Structures
2.3. Challenges to Micro-Level Perspectives
2.4. Challenges for A Structural Analysis of Sweatshop Labour
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter Three. A Marxist Feminist Approach to Sweatshop Labour
3.1. Marx on Exploitation and Capitalism
3.2. Towards A Normative Reconstruction of Exploitation
3.3. Key Characteristics of Marxist/Socialist Feminist Perspectives
3.4 Conclusion
Chapter Four. Exploitation, Marginalisation and Disposability
4.1. Sweatshop Labour Relations from A Structural Perspective
4.2. Structural Vulnerability
4.3. Structural Vulnerability and Relative Power in Sweatshop Labour
4.4. Structural Exploitation
4.5. Reproducing Exploitation
4.6. The Normative Critique of Sweatshop Labour
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter Five. Responsibility For Sweatshop Labour
5.1. Moral Responsibility for Sweatshop Labour?
5.2. The Grounds of Political Responsibility: Social Connections
5.3. Taking Up Political Responsibility
5.4. The Moral Status of Political Responsibility
5.5. Responsibility in Practice
Conclusion. Transnational Resistance and Solidarity
6.1. Responsibility and Practices of Solidarity
6.2. Resistance, Responsibility and Solidarity
6.3. Transnational Solidarity: Practices and Institutions
Bibliography
Index
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