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DeWinter, Rebecca. "Business as Usual? The Contentious Politics of the Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Social Construction of Apparel Corporations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70534_index.html>

DeWinter, R. M. , 2005-03-05 "Business as Usual? The Contentious Politics of the Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Social Construction of Apparel Corporations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70534_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand how the agitation of the anti-sweatshop movement has opened up a discursive space in which the societal role of apparel corporations is hotly contested. Since the emergence of the anti-sweatshop movement in the early 1990s, corporations have responded in numerous ways to the movement's demands to improve work conditions in production facilities around the globe. Through what means have activists sought to exert pressure on corporations and how has the activists' agenda been received by corporations? This paper seeks to understand how contentious politics impact the social construction of the identity of movement targets by examining the mechanisms through which the anti-sweatshop movement created the sweatshop as a legitimate social problem for which corporations are to be held responsible. Nike will be used as a case study to explore corporate-movement interactions and the impacts that has had on Nike's corporate language, practices, and structures. How has the movement challenged understandings of acceptable corporate behavior? What claims have been lodged around the appropriate set of rights and responsibilities for corporations and their legitimate realm of action? How have these challenges been received by relevant stakeholders and what has this meant for the identity of the corporation?

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