Abstract

THE NEW STUDENT MOVEMENT

Nati Passow, a University of Pennsylvania junior, said in a meeting with his fellow antisweatshop protesters that they have the university by the balls. Passow was one of thirteen Penn students-the group later grew to include forty-occupying the university president's office around the clock in early February to protest the sweatshop conditions under which clothing bearing the U-Penn logo is made. The Penn students, along with hundreds of other members of United Students Against Sweatshops nationwide, were demanding that their university withdraw from the Fair Labor Association, an industry-backed monitoring group, and instead join the Worker Rights Consortium, an organization independent of industry influence, founded by students in close cooperation with scholars, activists and workers' rights organizations in the global South. INSET: Sweating It Out.