The wages of sweat: A social history perspective on the fight against sweatshops

Lagerie, Pauline Barraud de

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“…Sweatshops, or the sweating system, referred to the most “backward,” non-mechanical, “light” industries that were concentrated in the “final levels of production” (e.g., Borochov 1984, p. 84). This system was also characterized by extremely poor and unregulated working conditions and a “contracting system” in which intermediaries or “contractors” operated between capitalists and workers, further reducing their respective margins and wages (de Lagerie 2013).…”

Section: Non-proletarianization Antisemitism and The Anti-sweatshop C...mentioning

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Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902 to 1939)

Vallois¹

2022

J Hist Econ Thought

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In the early twentieth century, an economic doctrine known as “non-proletarianization theory” became influential among left-wing Zionists in Russia. According to this theory, Jewish workers were unable to “proletarianize”—that is, to integrate large-scale industry; hence, Jewish territorial autonomy was required, whether in Palestine or elsewhere. This article analyzes this theory’s historical development, focusing on the works of three authors: Haim Dov Horovitz, Yakov Leshchinsky, and Ber Borochov. I claim that discussions of Jewish non-proletarianization can be considered a specific and coherent intellectual tradition in the history of economic thought. I also discuss these theories’ relation to the anti-sweatshop campaign of the Progressive Era, particularly John R. Commons’s writings on Jewish immigrants that were recently debated in this journal.

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Section: Non-proletarianization Antisemitism and The Anti-sweatshop C...mentioning

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Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902 to 1939)

Vallois¹

2022

J Hist Econ Thought

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“…Sweatshops, or the sweating system, referred to the most "backward," non-mechanical, "light" industries that were concentrated in the "final levels of production" (e.g., Borochov 1906, p.84). This system was also characterized by extremely poor and unregulated working conditions and a "contracting system" in which intermediaries or "contractors" operated between capitalists and workers, further reducing their respective margins and wages (de Lagerie 2013).…”

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Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902-1939).

Vallois¹

2021

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In the early twentieth century, an economic doctrine known as “non-proletarianization theory” became influential among left-wing Zionists in Russia. According to this theory, Jewish workers were unable to “proletarianize”—that is, to integrate large-scale industry; hence, Jewish territorial autonomy was required, whether in Palestine or elsewhere. This article analyzes this theory’s historical development, focusing on the works of three authors: Khaim Dov Horovitz, Yakov Leshchinsky, and Ber Borochov. I claim that discussions of Jewish non-proletarianization can be considered a specific and coherent intellectual tradition in the history of economic thought. I also discuss these theories’ relation to the anti-sweatshop campaign of the Progressive Era, particularly John R. Commons’s writings on Jewish immigrants that were recently debated in this journal.

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Conflicts of Responsibility in the Globalized Textile Supply Chain. Lessons of a Tragedy

Lagerie

2016

J Consum Policy

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Eight years before the Rana Plaza collapse (24 April 2013), which killed over 1100 people and received huge international media coverage, a somewhat similar tragedy drew my attention: the collapse of the Spectrum Sweater industries Ltd. factory (10 April 2005), which was responsible for the death of 64 people and led to some international mobilization. This paper describes and analyses the international career of the mobilization for the victims spurred by the tragedy. How were European consumers and citizens called upon to act? How did the European brands react? In the end, the question is how the appeal toWestern firms’ “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) can help improve the working conditions prevailing in Southern factories. By applying a generic definition of responsibility (the controlled administration of a sanction) and minutely examining the imputations of responsibility consecutive to the Spectrum tragedy, the paper exposes the work of activists who attempted to establish Western companies’ responsibility, and how some of the tagged companies resisted their moral obligation to protect workers beyond an employer–employee relationship stricto sensu

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The wages of sweat: A social history perspective on the fight against sweatshops

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902 to 1939)

Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902 to 1939)

Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902-1939).

Conflicts of Responsibility in the Globalized Textile Supply Chain. Lessons of a Tragedy

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