(5 📚for $25)The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continent
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The sweat and blood of Bangladeshi garment workers is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives. Seabrook, as he always has, delivers a brilliantly written jeremiad with an urgent moral message.?
Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements. In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world?s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn?t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.
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Publisher Fernwood Publishing (April 1 2015)
Language English
Paperback 288 pages
ISBN-10 1552667677
ISBN-13 978-1552667675
Item weight 458 g
Dimensions 1.27 x 1.4 x 21.59 cm
Customer Reviews 4.5 out of 5 stars 2Reviews
UNSPSC-Code 55101500
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