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""Putting the fight against sweatshops in broad perspective, Beth Robinson connects the violation of labor standards to the shifting political economy of the United States. She argues for the persistent dependence of capitalism on the exploitation of the most vulnerable wage laborers, mostly women and more often immigrant or US women of color. A new generation of students and activists will find inspiration in these pages that memorialize the past to generate the knowledge for making a better future.""--Eileen Boris, author of ""Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019"" ""Sweatshop Capital traces the historical through-line of antisweatshop activism to demonstrate that this history has much to teach us about the contemporary manifestations of sweated labor and our collective efforts to challenge worker exploitation. Beth Robinson mines valuable lessons from both the successes and failures of feminist activism to powerfully remind us that feminism has made important contributions to labor history.""--Mary Margaret Fonow, author of ""Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America""

“Putting the fight against sweatshops in broad perspective, Beth Robinson connects the violation of labor standards to the shifting political economy of the United States. She argues for the persistent dependence of capitalism on the exploitation of the most vulnerable wage laborers, mostly women and more often immigrant or US women of color. A new generation of students and activists will find inspiration in these pages that memorialize the past to generate the knowledge for making a better future.” - Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019 “Sweatshop Capital traces the historical through-line of antisweatshop activism to demonstrate that this history has much to teach us about the contemporary manifestations of sweated labor and our collective efforts to challenge worker exploitation. Beth Robinson mines valuable lessons from both the successes and failures of feminist activism to powerfully remind us that feminism has made important contributions to labor history.” - Mary Margaret Fonow, author of Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

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Beth Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

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