42 Results for : sweatshop
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The Knockoff: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 730min
An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her 20-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app. When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six months away, she can barely recognize her own magazine. Eve, fresh out of Harvard Business School, has fired "the gray hairs", put the managing editor in a supply closet, stopped using the landlines, and hired a bevy of manicured and questionably attired underlings who text and tweet their way through meetings. Imogen, darling of the fashion world, may have Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on speed dial, but she can't tell Facebook from Foursquare and once got her iPhone stuck in Japanese for two days. Under Eve's reign, Glossy is rapidly becoming a digital sweatshop - hackathons rage all night, girls who sleep get fired, and "fun" means mandatory, company-wide coordinated dances to Beyoncé. Wildly out of her depth, Imogen faces a choice - pack up her Smythson notebooks and quit, or channel her inner geek and take on Eve to save both the magazine and her career. A glittering, uproarious, sharply drawn story filled with thinly veiled fashion personalities, The Knockoff is an insider's look at the ever-changing world of fashion and a fabulous romp for our internet-addicted age. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Katherine Kellgren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004172/bk_rand_004172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Never Broken (eBook, ePUB)
The near corpse of a stranger had no idea where he'd been, how long he'd been there or who had kept him captive. But one thing intrigued journalist Lisa Jamison even more than his story: recent memories of a woman named Chandra Bower. Seven years had passed since Chandra disappeared from Seneca Springs without a trace. Police investigators still compared DNA records whenever an unidentified body appeared, hoping to at least bring her family closure. Lisa still chased down leads from desperate family and friends, being careful to hide her investigations from an editor who thought she'd become obsessed with a woman who was clearly dead. But this man had just seen her, sewing designer clothes in a dark, filthy basement with about twenty other men and women under horrifically inhumane conditions. And the sweatshop workers all had one thing in common: All were people of color. A split-second decision to help the man takes Lisa on a race against time. His captors want him back, there is evidence someone on the police force might be involved and the man knows that if he were recaptured, they would torture him until he revealed the names of the two people who helped him escape: Lisa Jamison and Chandra Bower. Lisa promised her teenage daughter she would stay away from the dangerous stories ever since her job had nearly gotten them both killed two years before. But she no longer has a choice. She must keep the stranger hidden while she gathers enough evidence to turn the case over to city police or the FBI. At least three lives-her own, the stranger's and Chandra's-depend on it.- Shop: buecher
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Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
Most of us realize that fashion is more than just clothes. It's not just about wearing what's in. Fashion influences our judgments of people's taste, politics, sexuality, class, religion, and even their moral character. It can be a medium for technological and social change – changes in fashion may signal economic and political shifts. Yet fashion can also trap us. We can be slaves to fashion if we feel trapped by the roles dictated by the clothes we wear, and we can be slaves to fashion, literally, as in the case of sweatshop workers who make most of the clothes we wear today. This audiobook explores the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. Topics include: What is fashion? How do we know what is fashionable? Who decides what's cool and what's not? How is it that clothes shape people the way they do? Why does fashion have the power it does? You won't look at your wardrobe in the same light again! Editors Jessica Wolfendale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University, and perhaps a little too fond of vintage clothing. She is the author of Torture and the Military Profession (2007) and has published extensively on the ethics of torture, military ethics, and applied ethics. Jeanette Kennett is Professor of Moral Psychology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Agency and Responsibility (2001) and has published widely on topics including empathy, addiction, self–control, advertising and love and friendship. Series Editor Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at The Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is als ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tracey Farrar. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008921/bk_adbl_008921_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Elvish Sweatshop (Gretchen's (Mis)Adventures Season One #9)
An Elvish Sweatshop (Gretchen's (Mis)Adventures Season One #9): ab 1.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Should we be concerned about sweatshop ethics?
Should we be concerned about sweatshop ethics? - Evaluating the claims of workers exploitation versus worker consent. 1. Auflage: ab 14.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Sweatshop Regime
Sweatshop Regime - Labouring Bodies Exploitation and Garments Made in India: ab 106.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Sweatshop USA
Sweatshop USA - The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective: ab 41.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas - The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice: ab 50.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Sweatshop USA
Sweatshop USA - The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective: ab 44.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Unmaking the Global Sweatshop
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop - Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers: ab 80.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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