Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor.(Book Review) From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Ross, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2005 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor. By Daniel E. Bender (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 288pp.).

There were an estimated 250,000 garment workers in the U.S. in 2000 whose employers failed to pay the minimum wage or did not pay them an overtime premium, and whose shops were physically dangerous or unhealthy. (1) Using the formal definitions of the U.S. Government these sites of "multiple labor law violations" were sw...

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