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Claiming connections: A distant world of sweatshops?
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Claiming connections: A distant world of sweatshops?

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This free course is adapted from a former Open University course called 'Living in a globalised world (DD205).'

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Extract 1 Oxfam Community Aid Abroad [accessed 18 January 2007

Table 1.1 Castree, N. et al. (2004) Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographics of Labour, Sage Publications Ltd.

Figure 1.2 copyright © AP Photo/Richard Vogel/Empics; Figure 1.3: copyright © Clean Clothes Campaign [accessed 18 January 2007; Figure 1.4: copyright © AP Photo/Le Thanh Hiep/Empics; Figure 1.5: copyright © Clean Clothes Campaign; Figure 1.6: Dicken, P. (2003) Global Shift. Copyright © Sage Publications 2003; Figure 1.7: copyright © Julio Etchart/Panos; Figure 1.8: copyright © Irene Slegt/Panos; Figure 1.11: copyright © Clean Clothes Campaign; Figure 1.12 Dicken, P. (2003) Global Shift. Copyright © Sage Publications 2003; Figure 1.13: copyright © No Sweat [accessed 18 January 2007].

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