Robert J.S. Ross

An expert on the global garment trade, Robert Ross is a research professor of sociology at Clark University’s Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise.

CorporationsJanuary 7, 2014

How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops

While feigning outrage at worker abuse in Bangladesh, the US government has been quietly supporting the same sweatshop factories used by Walmart and The Gap.

Robert J.S. Ross and Foreign Policy In Focus
CongressMay 8, 2007

Sweatshop Police

The government is about to declare virtual disarmament against the lawbreakers.

Robert J.S. Ross
Regions and CountriesAugust 24, 2000

Countdown in Managua

A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from Managua’s airpor

Robert J.S. Ross and Charles Kernaghan

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Robert J.S. Ross

CorporationsJanuary 7, 2014

While feigning outrage at worker abuse in Bangladesh, the US government has been quietly supporting the same sweatshop factories used by Walmart and The Gap.

CongressMay 8, 2007

The government is about to declare virtual disarmament against the lawbreakers.

Regions and CountriesAugust 24, 2000

A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from Managua’s airpor