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Definition: Sweatshop
Sweatshops are
work environments that include some of the following characteristics: pay is less than a
living wage, excessively long hours of work are required often without overtime pay, work
is done in unsafe or inhumane conditions, and workers are systematically abused by the
employer or suffer from sexual harassment, and/or workers have no ability to organize to
negotiate better terms of work.
(Source: International Labor Rights Fund)
Anti-Sweatshop and Labor Rights Links
International Labor
Rights Fund
Feminist Majority: Feminists Against
Sweatshops
Clean Clothes Campaign Home Page
US Department of Labor - NO
SWEAT
ILO: International Labor
Standards and Human Rights
Public Controversy and Voluntary Codes
Reputation Management : Inside PR,
"A Sweat Stain on the Fashion Industry's Image"
UNITE:
The Kathie Lee Gifford Story
National Labor Committee: The Kathie Lee Campaign
The Man Who Made Kathie Lee Cry: An
Interview with Charles Kernaghan
Kathie Lee and Wal-Mart Do It Again
Richard Rothstein,
"The Starbucks Solution: Can
Voluntary Codes Raise Global Living Standards?" American Prospect
(July-August, 1996).
White House Announces Apparel Industry Partnership Agreement
President Clinton,
Remarks on Apparel Task Force
Apparel Task
Force, Workplace Code of Conduct
Campaign for Labor
Rights, Analysis of
White House Sweat Shop Task Force
Clean Clothes
Campaign: Activists' Reactions to Apparel Task Force
Summary of Apparel
Industry Partnership Agreement"
Tim Bissell, "Divided
White House Sweatshop Panel"
Medea Benjamin, "What’s
Fair about the Fair Labor Association?"
Corporate Watch, "Sweatwash"
Nike
ESPN, Made in
Vietnam: The American Sneaker Controversy
Multinational Monitor:
"Nike: Just Do It, Or Else"
Multinational
Monitor: "Nike: Hot Air"
Multinational Monitor: "Nike
Does it to Vietnam"
Campaign for Labor Rights, Nike
Campaign Update
Corporate Watch: Nike Campaign Page
Clean Clothes Campaign Nike Page
Nike responds: Nike's
corporate Labor Practices Page
Phil Knight, Nike’s New Labor Initiatives
Sweatshops Come to Campus
UNITE, "Was Your
School’s Cap Made in this Sweatshop?"
Campaign for Labor Rights, "Duke Sets
New Licensing Policy"
United Students Against Sweatshops, "The Sweat-Free Campus
Campaign"
United Students Against Sweatshops, "Statement of
Principles"
Sweatshop Watch, "Students
Blast University Labor Code as Too Weak"
Sweatshops yesterday and today
Sweatshop Work: Photos from
Yestersday and Today
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