Society, Issues, Business, Human Rights, Sweatshops
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- Nonprofit devoted to stopping Sweatshops Sections of site: (1) What is a Sweatshop? (2) What You Can Do?, (3) Teaching Resources, (4)Current Campaigns, (5) Students Against Sweatshops, and (6)Stop Sweatshop Links.
- U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.
- An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
- Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
- Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.
- Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
- Anti-sweatshop group which sponsors the NY CISPES Traveling Sweatshop Theater, a dramatization of sweatshop conditions. Provides event calendar and information about immigration, neo-liberal economics, and labor activism.
- A labor organization which specializes in the struggles of workers in sweatshops. Provides labor updates on Nike, Disney, Guess, Child Labor (including the Rugmark and FoulBall campaign), Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, United States (esp. Farm
- Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
- Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
- NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
- Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
- Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
- Offers resources on sweatshop conditions, independent monitoring and workers' struggles to improve working conditions and win fair wages, plus a "Stop Sweatshop" campaign.
- National Labor Committee-sponsored project to inform holiday shoppers and socially responsible investors about sweatshop labor and other corporate abuses.
- A release regarding Duke University's March 1998 code requiring licensees to disclose information about factory conditions and reserving the right of the university to monitor working conditions and labor practices.
- U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
- Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
- Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.
- Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights.
- Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
- Student led group working to support human rights issues at the level of retail stores. University of Maine at Farmington.
- The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
- Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry.
- Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
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