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We are an independent enterprise with four study subgroups. Our four study (sub) groups would be organized around the research questions just outlined as we meet face-to-face at the academies that have already agreed to host sessions and professional development workshops (e.g. April and August, 2001). There will a be a combination or qualitative and quantitative research methodologies designed to answer each of the research questions. These research questions were developed to look at our two main objectives:
(1) How to move from forms of "extreme" Taylorism to what we will call French Taylorism in a series of experiments in wage systems and working conditions.
(2) How to reliably and validly monitor of transnational corporate behavior in the apparel industry (with or without government)?
It is the task of each subgroup to decide upon the most valid, reliable and credible methodologies to address their respective research question and our overall objectives. Each will appoint its own sub-group leader (two groups have leaders who have stepped forward). Each sub-group will review research proposals and participants for selection to do various tasks, such as participate in action research experiments. For example, some people will help with design issues, others will be resources in framing theory, others will help with factories, associations, run experiments, etc. Finally, some members (but not all) will want to be selected to actually travel to collect field data. We are particularly interested in doing ethnographic field work to address several questions as well as survey work that will be needed to address wage comparison and other issues. Each study team will make a specific set of recommendations on methodology and to improve the situation for the Athletic Apparel Industry and its workers. Interviews and field studies would best be conducted by multi-lingual researchers in order to minimize translation difficulties.
The research activities of the four sub-groups will be coordinated to keep the number of factory visits to a minimum necessary to establish reliability and validity. A coordinated list of factories and universities to be visited and included in the studies will be proposed.
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