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Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry#x92;s Sweatshops by Sarah Adler-Milstein and John M. Kline is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry#x92;s Sweatshops about?
Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry’s “race to the bottom” with its inhere
Who reads Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry#x92;s Sweatshops?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Sarah Adler-Milstein and John M. Kline
- Publisher
- Oakland, California: University of California Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520292901
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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