A Decent Living: Women Workers in the Winnipeg Garment Industry

Golz, Annalee; Millar, David; Roberts, Barbara; Kunkel, Lois; Zimmer, Astrid Mendelsohn
Publisher:  New Hogtown Press
Year Published:  1987
Pages:  116pp   Price:  $6.95   ISBN:  0-919940-26-9
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX22793

During the 1980s, the world garment industry underwent a massive industrialmodernization. The result was a global workplace in which employers sought increasingly marginal profits by exploiting their employees. This study describes how the garment industry in Winnipeg developed historically and how it responded to the challenges of the past decade. The reader is taken into the garment factories of Winnipeg to hear garment workers testify in their own words about what the process of restructuring to meet global competition has meant for their lives and their jobs.

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