Society, Issues, Business, Human Rights, Sweatshops

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- 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.
- 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.
- Student led group working to support human rights issues at the level of retail stores. University of Maine at Farmington.
- NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
- U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
- An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
- 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
- Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, 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.
- 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.
- Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
- The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
- Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
- National Labor Committee-sponsored project to inform holiday shoppers and socially responsible investors about sweatshop labor and other corporate abuses.
- Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
- 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.
- 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.
- Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
- Offers resources on sweatshop conditions, independent monitoring and workers' struggles to improve working conditions and win fair wages, plus a "Stop Sweatshop" campaign.
- Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
- 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.
- Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
- Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
- 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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