Brooks Ethel C (20 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: fine. 243 pages; 6 x 9" Social movements, protest, and contention, volume 27.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. trade paperback in fine condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Illustrated edition NO-PA29JULT2014-KAP.

Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 243 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition red cloth boards with a 7 1/2 inch by 5 1/2 inch color illustrated front cover pastedown and gold spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Washington Irving; List of Illustrations; Illustrator Dedication and Introduction; Acknowledgments; Author Index; Title Index; and Credits. Profusely illustrated with color drawings by Mary Engelbreit and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. Also includes gilt page edges on all three sides, all pages sewn into the binding (not glued), and a bound-into-the-volume green satin ribbon page marker. Engelbreit, Mary (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 'Transnational organizing and women's work.' Soft covers clean and tidy, minimal signs of shelfwear, pp bright and clean, unmarked, binding tight and secure, a very neat and tidy copy. Size: 8vo.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 304, 3 Maps.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 304, 3 Maps.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 304.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements-against GAP clothing in El Salvador, child labor in Bangladesh, and sweatshops in New York City-Ethel C. Brooks examines how transnational consumer protest campaigns effect change, sometimes with unplanned penalties for those they intend to protect.Brooks analyzes a two-pronged problem in consumer boycott campaigns against labor abuse in the garment industry. First, how are we to understand the political necessities of local protest such as the right to unionize against the emphasis placed on consumer boycotts Second, what and whose agency is privileged or obscured within the symbolic economies and the politics of information deployed by these campaigns Tying both of these questions together is a commitment to seeing globalization as embedded in the everyday realities of the local.Drawing attention to the race, class, and gender assumptions central to powerful consumer boycotts, Brooks reveals how these movements unintentionally reinforce the global economic forces they denounce.Ethel C. Brooks is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and sociology at Rutgers University.…