San Francisco No Longer Sweat-Free
Tom Hayden : San Francisco/Bay Area
The city has backed away from its longstanding commitment to avoid procuring city workers' garments from offshore sweatshops.
Tom Hayden : San Francisco/Bay Area
The city has backed away from its longstanding commitment to avoid procuring city workers' garments from offshore sweatshops.
Barbara Ehrenreich : Children & Child Care
The Gap has been caught selling garments made by child slaves in India. It's enough to make you vomit all over your new denim jacket.
The Editors : Higher Education
Will a donation from Nike deflect Stanford's efforts to curb sweatshop labor in the making of its sports regalia?
Jehangir S. Pocha : China
How do the Chinese make such cheap TVs? By silencing, arresting and sometimes torturing labor rights activists.
New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury is getting props with a $14.98 sneaker designed to appeal to low-income kids. But the criticism he's endured over sweatshop labor shows it's hard to do good.
Peter Dreier & Richard Appelbaum : Higher Education
The University of California has thrown its weight behind an antisweatshop initiative on campus logowear, proof that conscientious consumers can humanize the forces of global capitalism.
Richard Appelbaum & Peter Dreier : Student Movements
With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.
Richard Appelbaum & Peter Dreier
There's a growing market for clothing and other goods made to satisfy consumers' social conscience.
Jenny Stepp : Student Movements
Student activists at Florida State are sweating out the summer in tents to draw attention to their cause.
The government is about to declare virtual disarmament against the lawbreakers.
Nike has the advantage when it comes to mass media, but activists may have the advantage with micromedia.
