Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by anetwork of garment workers' support organizations and makes senseof global supply chains from the bottom up.
* Presents new empirical research by a network of garmentworkers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia,Europe and Mexico.
* Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated actionresearch in order to better understand and resist the negativeimpact of globalization on labour.
* Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already tryingto reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.
* Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop newforms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in theglobal garment industry.
* Bridges the gap between activist and academic research,improving the conversation between these two groups.