Descripción: A comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the US apparel industry, this book focuses on the re-emergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. "Making Sweatshops" asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice - especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world. Continido: Free trade, neoclassical economics and women workers in the global apparel industry roots of the postwar textile and apparel trade - the reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim textile industry the emergence of trade protection for the textile and apparel industries the US textile industry - responses to free trade the US apparel industry - responses to capital flight the 1980s - the demise of protection the Reagan revolution - the Caribbean Basin initiative trade liberalization for textiles and apparel - the impact of NAFTA apparel retailing in the United States - from mom-and-pop shop to transnational corporation finally free trade - the future of the global apparel industry the new global apparel trade - who wins, who Loses?