Sweatshops

NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.

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.

Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.

Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador

Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.

A coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Includes FAQs, examples of abuse, action alerts, resources and current projects.

Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.

Student led group working to support human rights issues at the level of retail stores. University of Maine at Farmington.

Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.

Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.

Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.

The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.

Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.

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.

An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.

A multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. Behind the Label represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothing workers, religious leaders, and students who are demanding human rights for sweatshop workers.

Independent documentary film about the lives of Nike factory workers in Indonesia.

Organization working to end sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide.

Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.

Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.

Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.

Organization focused on human rights abuses and sweatshops. Provides articles and news releases detailing developments in the anti-sweatshop community.

Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.

A worker-owned apparel printing and design collective created to fund social justice organizing. Site offers sweatshop-free printed t-shirts and accessories for sale.

Aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, and international human and labor rights.

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.

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Subject: Anti-Sweatshop/Human Rights Policy ... to articulate the University's principles on these important human rights issues. ...[2008/11/01]

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