"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate. Born to an anti-sweatshop tradition, the author dreamt in the Sixties of a New Left combining students and labor, and now, as a scholar and mentor, he has lived to document that dream in the new global justice movement."
Tom Hayden

". . . unflinchingly portrays the reemergence of the sweatshop in our dog-eat-dog economy."
Los Angeles Times

"Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return; a study of how the media portray them; an analysis of the fortunes of the current anti-sweatshop movement; an anatomy of the global traffic in apparel, in particular the South-South competition that sends wages and working conditions plummeting toward the bottom; and not least, a passionate declaration of faith that humanity can find a way to get its work done without sweatshops. This is engaged sociology at its most stimulating."
Todd Gitlin