Shae Garwood

Shae Garwood (Com ’96) co-edited a book, Lessons for Social Change in the Global Economy: Voices from the Field, published by Lexington Books. Ms. Garwood is a researcher interested in civil society and transnational politics, gender, labor and social change. She resides in Perth, Australia.

Shae Garwood (Com ’96) published a book, Advocacy Across Borders: NGOs, Anti-Sweatshop Activism, and the Global Garment Industry, with Kumarian Press. The book examines the transnational anti-sweatshop movement, the challenges faced by it and by the workers for whose benefit it advocates. Clothing and textile industry workers face long hours, inadequate wages, harassment and abuse—it is often difficult or impossible for them to unionize, so they have reached out to allies across political borders in order to apply more pressure on garment manufacturers. Ms. Garwood’s study points forward to a better system.