Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes global trends. The resurgence of sweatshops affects the working poor in both first- and third-world countries.
Paleczny assesses the responsibility of transnational retailers for unacceptable wages and working conditions and describes historic shifts in the global context of garment production. After exploring systemic causes of poverty, relevant policy setting, and ethical foundations, Paleczny introduces both short- and long-range possibilities for transformation, emphasizing the collaborative nature of work.
Clothed in Integrity draws on feminist studies, alternative economics, and the ethical foundations proposed by Bernard Lonergan to fashion a constructive work in which Paleczny connects issues of societal meanings and values, moral imperatives, and economic feasibility. With candour, she shares personal stories of engagement in coalition work. Those who dwell on this text will find information, challenges, and inspiration to nurture their reflection, research, dialogue, and action.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 12
- Acknowledgements 16
- Preface 18
- Serious Implications for Faith Communities 22
- My Entry into the Problem 24
- Perspective and Purpose 26
- Time Frame 27
- Method 27
- Importance of Images and Symbols 30
- Assumptions and Horizons 31
- Stories 33
- Notes 33
- Part I: Identifying Relations of Ruling and Solidarity 36
- 1 Present Conditions of Garment Homeworking in Toronto: The Microeconomics of a Low-Wage Strategy 38
- A Story of Exploitation 39
- Exposing Some Myths 42
- Protection of Homeworkers in Multiple Sectors 45
- Conclusion 46
- Notes 47
- 2 The Macroeconomics of Garment Homeworking: Homework in Its Historical Context 52
- Homeworking in the Context of Expanding Capitalism 53
- Conclusion 80
- Notes 81
- 3 The Macroeconomics of Garment Homeworking: The International Web of Production and Feminist Analysis of the Relations of Ruling 92
- The International Web of Production in the Garment Industry 93
- Feminist Analysis of the Relations of Ruling in the Garment Industry 109
- Conclusion 116
- Notes 117
- 4 Transforming the Local Situation in Its Global Context 124
- Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers’ Coalition Campaign in Ontario 125
- Core Issues Arising from Praxis 138
- ILGWU Initiatives and Challenges 148
- Webs of Solidarity Worldwide 154
- Relations of Solidarity 156
- Conclusion 156
- Transition to Part II 157
- Notes 158
- Part II: Constructing Feminist Socio-economic Ethics as Transformative Theology 166
- 5 Horizon, Bias and Specificity/Difference Analysis Related to Homeworking 168
- Horizon and Feminist Analysis 169
- Forms of Bias and the Obstruction of Transformation 175
- Specificity and Difference 185
- Conclusion 194
- Notes 196
- 6 Home Outside the Public Eye 202
- The Myth of Women’s Place and Market Strategies 204
- Social Construction of Gender and ‘‘Race’’ Relations 208
- Implications for Socio-political Organization 211
- Some Foundational Elements of a Framework to Restructure Society 220
- Further Construction of an Integrative Framework 223
- Conclusion 236
- Notes 238
- 7 Discerning Elements for Socio-economic Ethics 244
- A Radical, Global Task 248
- Values as the Foundation for Alternate Choices 250
- Difference and Specificity as a Gift of God 277
- An Ethics of Integrity and Truth 280
- Relating Ethical Imperatives and Economic Possibilities 284
- Conclusion: Ethics, Sin and Grace 294
- Notes 298
- Conclusion 310
- Conclusion 312
- Location of Ethical Discourse and Norms of Justice Making 312
- Difference and Specificity Analysis Intrinsic to Theological Praxis 313
- Constructing Domestic Just Relations 317
- Global Relations of Solidarity to Counteract Global Relations of Injustice 319
- Integrating Images and Social Factors in Theological Endeavour 322
- Notes 323
- Bibliography 326
- Index 384
- A 384
- B 384
- C 384
- D 385
- E 385
- F 385
- G 385
- H 385
- I 386
- J 386
- K 386
- L 386
- M 386
- N 386
- O 386
- P 387
- R 387
- S 387
- T 387
- U 387
- W 387
- Z 387
