Online news and information for a democratic labor movement.
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry.
Info@maquilasolidarity.org GET INVOLVED No Sweat Campaign Is your city, school, university or employer supporting sweatshops through its purchases Join the national campaign for No Sweat public institutions. Disclosure Campaign Join us in calling on the federal government to require companies to publicly disclose where clothes sold in Canada are made. PDF format Join the Network Become a ...
www.maquilasolidarity.org
Online Exhibit from Cornell University's Kheel Center on the Triangle Fire disaster of 1911 - a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of 146 young people in a New York City sweatshop and the resulting investigations and reforms. Original documents, oral histories, photographs presented.
www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire
No Sweat! organises and campaigns against sweatshop labour in the UK and worldwide. We campaign in solidarity with sweatshop workers globally.
Verification in Trade and Ethics Verits mission is to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal conditions. Contact Us Verit Main Office 44 Belchertown Road Amherst, MA USA 01002 Tel: 413-253-9227 Fax: 413-256-8960 Email: verite@verite.org Verit San Francisco Office The Presidio P.O. 29337 San Francisco, CA 94129 Tel: 415-561-2606 Fax: 415-561-2604 Email: verite@verite.org ...
NMASS (National Mobilization Against Sweatshops) is a grassroots educational campaign dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions for all working people.
The Sweat Gear catalog: a satirical on-line clothing catalog that exposes sweatshops in Central America ...
www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
THE NRF FOUNDATION STOPPING SWEATSHOPS: THE VIEW FROM MAIN STREET INTRODUCTION RETAILERS SUPPLIERS GOVERNMENT TRADE America's retailers got their start on Main Street in small towns like Kemmerer, Wyoming and North Redwood, Minnesota. We have been successful because we share the values of Main Street, values that are as simple as they are universal: an honest day's pay for an honest day's work; ...
www.sweatshops-retail.org
A brief look at causes of homelessness ... organizations that help ... and what you can do.
www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
LABORS' PAINS APRIL 14, 1997 TRANSCRIPT Today the President announced an effort to reduce the use of sweatshops to manufacture products purchased by Americans. According to President Clinton, the agreement establishes, a workplace code of conduct that companies will voluntarily adopt, and require their contractors to adopt, to dramatically improve the conditions under which goods are made.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html
www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
Abusers, Full of Shame, Tried to Suppress Exhibit Museum Hosts Controversial Factory Exhibit by K. Connie Kang The Smithsonian Institution's critically acclaimed but controversial exhibit on sweatshops--one that other museums have declined to show--opens today at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance. A centerpiece of the exhibit, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of ...
www.progress.org/muse08.htm
