ROBERT J.S. ROSS
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES STREAM

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CLARK UNIVERSITY
WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
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Global Capitalism (Soc. 248; Govt. 247), 1998
Cities and Suburbs Syllabus (Soc. 125) 2003

This course is on Clark’s “Blackboard system.” If you are not a Clark University user, click “preview” to see the course.

             
No Sweat! Seminar (Sociology 090), 2000 

From the Smithsonian Institution
 

August 1938: "Garment Workers at Play" 

August 1995:  Work Station in 
Elmonte, CA where 72 workers were held in slavery 

Important Documents in the Sweat -Free Campus Issue:

  1. The United Students Against Sweatshops established the Workers' Rights Consortium. The Model Code of Conduct can be found here http://www.workersrights.org/coc.asp.  

USAS Home Page:  Click Here
2. The Fair Labor Association is an industry-led group originally initiated by the Clinton Administration. Its Code of Conduct and Principles of Monitoring are here: http://www.fairlabor.org/

For an overview of recent organizing against sweatshop exploitation and comparisons to social movements of the sixties, please see the Journal of World Systems Research , volume 10, no. 1, special issue on Resistance to corporate globalization, and an article based on a chapter from my book on the sweatshop issue (Slaves to Fashion:  Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops (University of Michigan Press, late 2004): “From Antisweatshop to Global Justice to Antiwar: How the new New Left is the Same and Different From the old New Left.”

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For a new approach to the Race to the Bottom in International Labor Standards, please see my article, with Anita Chan, “From North-South to South-South: The True Face of Global Competition,”  reprinted by permission of Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct) Copyright (2002) by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.  Other Foreign Affairs essays and archives can be accessed at: www.foreignaffairs.org.  A longer version of the same general argument can be found in my work with Anita Chan in Third World Quarterly (December 2003). “Racing to the bottom: international

trade without a social clause.”

 


Now Available From The University of Michigan Press:

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Slaves to Fashion