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Feminism Versus Multiculturalism, Leti Volpp
(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp
(Dis)Assembling Rights Of Women Workers Along The Global Assembly Line: Human Rights And The Garment Industry, Laura Ho, Catherine Powell, Leti Volpp
Leti Volpp
The article examines the challenges garment workers in the U.S. face in asserting their rights in the global economy and investigates how transnational advocacy can be deployed to compensate for the inability of U.S. labor laws to respond to problems with international dimensions. Using a purely domestic U.S. legal framework, advocates can attack the problem of transnational corporations subcontracting in the U.S. Such efforts, however, will have limited effect because of the global nature of the garment industry. Most efforts to change the structure of the garment industry have occurred within the limitations of U.S. law, even while there has …