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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
... network of capitalist greed, which powers the global clothing chain in which Mauritius has served historically as a vital, if exploited, link. Duvergé humanizes the poverty and physical suffering of garment workers in Mauritius, foregrounding imbalances and interdependencies characterizing today’s global...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 49–68.
Published: 01 October 2022
... on and obfuscated the labor of workers across national borders. In his 1855 account of his experiences as an enslaved laborer, John Brown made explicit the connections between the global market for cotton garments and the exploitation of enslaved people: Cotton being the staple production of the Southern States...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 144–155.
Published: 01 October 2022
... hand-knitting of the sweaters in the Aran Islands, from the 1950s on, was contracted out by merchants to women knitters working in their homes. The women avoided becoming factory workers, and the merchants avoided overhead costs and paid very low wages, while the garments avoided any taint of mass...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 21–36.
Published: 01 October 2022
... emphasized stereotypically female technologies like garment work, which was the case with the December 1939 cover of Vogue Paris featuring knitting as a means of helping the war effort. 1 While the French fashion industry remained in business throughout the war, preserving jobs for thousands of workers...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 9–22.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., such as nursing. Hall's female ambulance workers especially thrive in the homosocial camaraderie on offer in specialist units operating in close proxim ity to the fighting and perform tasks that demand the brute strength and intense physical endurance associated w ith masculinization as w ell as the technical...
