Orientalization of exploitation: A class-analytical critique of the sweatshop discourse

Rethinking Marxism

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-306

  Erçel, Kenan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Exploitation; Global local; Orientalism; Sweatshops; Unequal exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247659876     PISSN: 08935696     EISSN: 14758059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08935690600578950     Document Type: Article

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