| 单词 | sweatshop |
| 例句 | Fannie worked at one of two sweatshops owned and operated by the Marx & Haas Clothing Co., the largest clothing manufacturer in St. Louis. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The child of poor Polish immigrants, she had been ambitious, worked days in a sweatshop and gone to school at night. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After my mother was arrested in the sweatshop immigration raid, a prison doctor had given her a shot of a drug to keep her calm overnight; That shot, my mother believed, caused Caroline’s condition. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Although I am sure that there are call centers that are operated like sweatshops, 24/7 is not one of them. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z As it was payday, all along the streets I met black men hurrying, hurrying, hurrying, the pittances of an eight days’ week in sweatshops jingling in their deep pockets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar was a bridge—like the sneakers and T-shirts and rugs that, today, we know are made by sweatshop labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Frankie’s blunt words shocked me almost as much as his description of the sweatshops. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When my mother was three months pregnant with my younger sister, Caroline, she was arrested in a sweatshop raid and spent three days in an immigration jail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I cringed at the thought of becoming a gravedigger, but it was better than searching for work at Chicago’s sweatshops and slaughterhouses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Shirts and trousers without the union label came from sweatshops like the one where Fannie had worked. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z It's globe-girdling, there's a murder in it, there are sweatshops in Saipan, dirty deals in Russia, arms whistling to the West Bank. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z Expect “synagogues and sweatshops,” as they put it. In London, eat your way through the history — and future — of fish and chips 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Williams told me that the council found a two-bedroom flat on the Aylesbury estate with 20 occupants, who were being bussed down to Bromley, 40 minutes away, every day to work in a sweatshop. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The director’s story begins with cofounding the Downtown Community Television Center, where he used scrappy video equipment to expose sweatshops and chronicle labor struggles in New York. Review: ‘Cuba and the Cameraman’ Lavishes Love on a Country … and Castro 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z To see models as they are – starved, exploited, exposed – we would have to accept fashion isn't really so joyous, more an expanding sweatshop covered in lip-gloss, dedicated to the punishment of the lovely. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z “Salome” is a feminist potboiler, a tale of enterprise and upward mobility that follows Sonya Mendel from sweatshop seamstress to prosperous fashion designer. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z As if that weren’t enough to turn one’s stomach, MCC is also outsourcing inmates’ labor to a lingerie company, effectively opening a federally subsidized sweatshop within prison walls. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Angry Caputo 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Some union advocates see the 21st century economy as a return to the smoky early years of industrialism, before unions made themselves felt — the Information Age version of sweatshops and endless work weeks. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z At that time, I lived in California and she lived in London, so I would write while she was asleep and she would write while I was asleep—we were like a sweatshop. Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In the clip, Banksy lampoons the outsourcing of Simpsons animation cels to South Korea by showing the characters being drawn by candlelight in damp underground sweatshops. Critical Shopper: Where the Well Heeled Dress Down 2010-10-19T22:32:00Z Toiling in a decrepit, leaky factory in sweatshop conditions, the brash and feisty “girls,” as everyone calls them, strip down to their bras while sewing car-seat upholstery. | 'Made in Dagenham': ?60s Sweatshop Girls Fighting Ford 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z He was particularly active on the health committee, visiting hospitals, sweatshops and the homes of the poor where he saw under-nourishment, destitution and disease. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z He avoids buying clothes made in sweatshops and eats locally grown food. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z And Anna Qu’s immigrant memoir, “Made in China,” about a childhood spent working in her family’s sweatshop in Queens. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He has since helped rescue more than 70,000 children from brick kilns, stone quarries, carpet loom factories, circuses, sweatshops and farms. 'I can't explain the joy each time I've freed a child': Nobel winner 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z How many people who are working two part-time jobs and barely getting by would swap their Walmart and McDonald’s shifts for life in a virtual sweatshop? Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z In the Amazon era, their equivalents become sweatshop workers, almost literally: The Allentown Morning Call reported warehouse temperatures approaching 115 degrees. 5 reasons to wish Amazon an unhappy birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z My first volunteers were all Asian women, and I was like, “Oh, my God, this is the sickest moment, we are a modern-day sweatshop.” Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z In that sweatshop that makes uncomfortable chairs for other sweatshops.” Review: Comedy Central’s ‘Moonbeam City’ Recalls the World of ‘Miami Vice’ 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Fisher was born in Philadelphia, the fourth of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who worked in tailoring sweatshops and lived in a slum. Eddie Fisher obituary 2010-09-24T16:11:00Z “One was about the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911, something I felt incredibly passionate about,” Ms. Graham said, referring to the infamous sweatshop inferno that killed 145, many of them young immigrant women. Actress Heather Graham Turns From #MeToo to Toil and Trouble 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Improvements don’t mean sweatshops no longer exist in Bangladesh. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “A form — what am I saying, a form?” one of the subjects of “Lawyerland” exclaims, discussing sweatshops and sex trafficking: “Indentured servitude. That’s what it is.” Thinking About Empire and Economy, With a Poet’s Mind and a Lawyer’s Words 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In 2016, the factory where Kylie Jenner's lip kits were manufactured was compared by some of its workers to a "sweatshop," and accused of subjecting workers to unclean and unsafe conditions. Kim Kardashian becomes latest “girlboss” sued by workers 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z We began to squabble over something petty, I can’t remember what — maybe I lectured him about the evils of meat eating, maybe his pants were produced via sweatshop labor. In praise of idle hands: Underemployed and unashamed in America 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And while he is condemning the Main Street megaliths for producing in sweatshops, he slips in photographs of high-end runway shows, implying that they also produce in sweatshops. ‘The True Cost,’ a Different Kind of Fashion Documentary 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The new season deposits us in tiny Vinci, Calif., less a town than a scam, a haven for sweatshop owners and a goldmine for corrupt city officials. Review: More Angst, Less Poetry in a Lesser True Detective 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Jews were finally starting to get what their immigrant grandparents had worked so hard in sweatshops to achieve. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z It was what I imagine working for a sweatshop would be like. @Work Advice: The after-potty. Readers respond to letter about bathroom breaks 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The $40 T-shirts I was buying at the upscale shop a few blocks away were still made in sweatshops with unsustainable manufacturing practices and horrific working conditions. Buy Me Once: the online shop for stuff that lasts, from T-shirts to tweezers 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z We may never visit the inside of a sweatshop. 'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z They're found in fellow speculative fiction author Cory Doctorow's "For the Win," too, though Doctorow's characters are clearly oppressed sweatshop workers, while Stephenson's seem more a lamentable feature of the modern scene. 'Reamde': criminality in a digital world 2011-09-14T22:20:05Z So it was this gallows humor joke that I was the sweatshop overlord — also humor about child labor because I was ordering children around. Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The resulting story involves illegal sweatshops, ancient secrets, cutting-edge science and more. Crime fiction: new works by Thomas Perry and Cara Black 2012-03-07T22:57:05Z Instead of working in sweatshops and living in crowded urban ghettos, the newcomers frequently moved to the frontier, supporting themselves as itinerant peddlers. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The story opens in a sweatshop in Lahore, Pakistan, where a 16-year-old garment worker almost dies in a fire that kills some of her co-workers. ‘The Capitalist’: A financial thriller inspired by Bernie Madoff 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z That led the company — like so many others — to use America’s tariff-free trade laws to shift production to Asia, where profits could be boosted by slave wage rates and sweatshop conditions. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z We eluded the genocidal pogroms of the 1905 Russian Revolution and arrived in America in 1906, enduring the tenement sweatshops of the Lower East Side garment district before moving to the Bronx. Was my grandfather Batman? 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As a culture we've bought in to the idea that these bits of silicon and glass designed in California and churned out of sweatshops in China are the absolute bees' knees. Novels remain the best interactive media 2013-07-12T13:00:03Z “When I started in this building 14 years ago, it was all sweatshops and me,” Mr. Naegele recalled. The Gimlet Eye: New York?s Garment District Still Thrives 2010-04-28T20:01:00Z But Madrigal was soon picketing a nearby Disney Store over allegations that its clothes were made in sweatshops. Monopoly Man: How an elaborate act of protest stole the show on Capitol Hill 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Can the combination of summer camp and sweatshop that produces ensembles on “Project Runway” and entrees on “Top Chef” be adapted to the production of fine art? The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z And there were displays of modern sweatshops in places like Honduras, linking the struggles of the past to the continuing fight for workers’ rights in the future. Social democracy and the dignity of work: The U.S. must learn from Scandinavian “utopias” for Bernie’s revolution to move forward 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z In the Veneto, Chinese immigration does not depend solely on industrial production, typical of the fashion sweatshops of central and southern Italy. Film: China and Italy Meet in a Seaside Bar 2011-01-19T16:58:51Z “And the quality is brilliant — it’s not done in sweatshops over there.” 2010-01-31T15:11:00Z They work endless hours in garment sweatshops for pitiful wages, yet still manage to save their money and send most of it back home. The most nightmarish holiday commute ever 2011-09-27T16:28:00Z He decried tenements and sweatshops, pushed for government control of factory-owned land, and advocated for a progressive tax on land values to help fund the social needs of workers. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s a mass sweatshop … The industry is the supply chain, regardless of who is the technical employer.” Sweatshops still make your clothes 2013-03-21T15:36:00Z Padma’s argument echoes the ethical debate surrounding sweatshops: workers must be both free to make a living and protected from harm. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The world weighs heavily on Bardem's Barcelona loner here – what with his exploitative sweatshop business, miserable family life, terminal illness and his visions of the other side. This week's new films 2011-01-29T00:06:01Z He details the sweatshop conditions workers face: brutal 12- to 16-hour shifts on the assembly line. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z Before then factories were essentially sweatshops or common spaces where individual craftsmen sat and assembled each item piece by piece completely from scratch, which was enormously time and resource consuming. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z The original crew on First Avenue rarely made eye contact and often appeared mildly resentful, an understandable reaction in those sweatshop conditions. Restaurant Review: Momofuku Ko in the East Village 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z His mother, who worked in a clothing sweatshop in New York earning a penny a dress, was the daughter of immigrants from the same region of southern Italy. Tony Bennett makes nostalgic return to Italian roots 2012-07-23T13:58:38Z She quotes the economist Michael Belzer, who calls trucks “sweatshops on wheels.” Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z The sculptures that immediately followed, called “Floorpieces,” were also made from cloth, in this case commercial knit scraps that Ms. Hammond scavenged from sweatshop dumpsters in SoHo. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z "You're in crushed velvet and embroidered jeans. It looks amazing under the lights, but it's a sweatshop." Capturing Janis Joplin's intensity onstage takes teamwork — and strong tea 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z At the same time, "Fiddler" coincided with the Jewish exodus from tenements and sweatshops to suburban homes and professional opportunities. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z Why did you call yourself a “sweatshop overlord”? Kristina Wong’s Pandemic Story: Sewing With Her Aunties 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z At the end of the 1960s, SoHo was a district of abandoned workshops, moribund sweatshops and acres of empty floorspace. Pioneers of the Downtown Scene: a walk on the wall side 2011-03-02T21:30:01Z The industry is structured like a cross between an agricultural collective and a waterborne sweatshop. "Deadliest Catch's" captivating tale of addiction 2011-06-01T12:23:00Z When Rock eventually brought three Asian children onstage, there were used as props for a woefully bad joke about accountants and sweatshops. Deeper than awful Asian jokes at the Oscars: Hollywood’s vanilla reflex doesn’t just hurt artists—it’s bad business, too 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The final sequence detailing income inequality and sweatshop exploitation in the fashion industry is a powerful kick in the teeth. ‘Greed’ Review: Millionaires at Their Best. Or Worst. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z This Aussie comic typically starts his set by outlining his objectives, and explaining that his jokes ought to work, since they were all constructed for him by sweatshop workers. This week's new comedy 2011-07-15T23:07:12Z But the Bangladesh apparel industry has also been rife with sweatshops — among the grimmest ever, anywhere — and with them come industrial accidents. Why Won’t We Learn from the Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster? 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he found work as a composer and arranger in the musical sweatshops of Hollywood, mostly at MGM, winning four Oscars for his orchestrations of such stylish musicals as 1964’s “My Fair Lady.” Andre Previn, Oscar-winning composer, has died at 89 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He’s sour and drunk and broke and entirely devoid of Christmas spirit, commercially outpaced by sweatshops and raging that he’s “full of a loathing for a world that’s forgotten”. Fatman: the Mel Gibson Santa action comedy we really don't need right now 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Her stories brought about sweeping reforms in asylums, sweatshops, orphanages and prisons. Top 10 inspiring female adventurers 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Kate Hudson's Birdie Jay is not too bright, and an exchange she has about her sweatpants sweatshop is highly amusing. Cozy up to "Glass Onion," the droll "Knives Out" sequel that delivers all the murder mystery goods 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z But the novel’s main character is the neighborhood itself—the gritty-turned-gentrified Tribeca, where sweatshops and factories gave way to spacious lofts and bohemians gave way to bankers. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z More recently, he has been accused of running his latest writing venture as a Dickensian sweatshop. James Frey ignores publishing houses to release new book through art gallery 2011-03-15T17:38:01Z On Last Week Tonight, Oliver took fast fashion companies, including Walmart and the Gap, to task for the fact that sweatshops and child labor are still commonly used to manufacture high street clothing. Watch John Oliver Take On Cheap, High Street Fashion 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The Nike ur-scandal was its use of sweatshop labor and child labor in Asia, which dogged the company throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Reading All the Books on Nike, Déjà Vu Sets In 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Even the sight of girls toiling in a sewing-machine sweatshop is rendered pleasing. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z He checks in on Chinese sweatshop workers and African vendors of counterfeit watches and bags, collecting and dispensing money and running interference with police officers and factory owners. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z “Or a sweatshop,” Ms. Parke added, “depending on how you look at it.” Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke’s Homespun Abstractions 2012-11-11T22:48:11Z Moore's series, which was launched in 2011, has examined everything from sweatshop labor to food access in ways that make those difficult topics accessible. 'Threadbare's' investigative comics explore the hard choice some women face between sweatshops and sex work 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Though they are not exposed to what most people would consider sweatshop conditions, the homeworkers are allotted what might seem close to sweatshop wages. Inside Italy’s Shadow Economy 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In the nightmarish alternate reality conjured by the film, people are so eager to leave the rat race that they join WorryFree and find themselves housed in sweatshops with bunkbeds and matching jumpsuits. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z One of their favorite skits involved Wally Ballou interviewing a paperclip company tycoon who tackles “waste and inefficiency” by running a sweatshop of indentured servants. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He also reports that most smartphones and tablets are made in Chinese sweatshops. Daisey's 1-man Apple-bashing show to return to NYC 2011-12-01T19:18:08Z Some of their fraught courtship is conducted behind the main stage, in custom-built alcoves representing a sweatshop; a drugstore; an apartment. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z "For the sake of all the kids in every sweatshop, factory and slaughterhouse in this town, I beg you, throw down your papers and join the strike." Review: Musical 'Newsies' is relentlessly cheery 2012-03-30T01:50:08Z By that logic, all those sweatshops in Bangladesh comprise a buzzing cultural district. Now that artists can't afford the Arts District, L.A. needs to rethink its role as a creative city 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Once parked, he unloaded old kitchen utensils from the trunk and started washing them with black ink, as if referring to the domestic life of sweatshop labor. Stephen Varble: The Street Was His Stage, the Dress Was His Weapon 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Iñárritu directs these scenes as if he longed for a bit of action to relieve the monotony of Uxbal's visits to the sweatshop he operates. 'Biutiful': Javier Bardem is striking as a dying father in the slums of Barcelona 2011-02-03T20:19:07Z Depressingly, Lorenz seems to believe that recording videos that hawk clothes made in an Indonesian sweatshop fulfills some kind of liberatory ideal. L.A. tech reporter Taylor Lorenz falls down the influencer rabbit hole 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z To cure that little problem, here are some facts about Nike sweatshops. Facts About Nike Sweatshops 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z At the moment, someone might be driving an SUV, might be eating lots of meat and might buying clothes that were made in sweatshops. "We are all implicated in this system" — A philosopher's advice for surviving unethical times 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z They lost control over immigration after a series of scandals over sweatshops — clothing companies that came in to make “Made in U.S.A.”-labeled clothes but paid workers pennies. The America That Americans Forget 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The company is named for his grandfather, the son of a Lithuanian sweatshop worker, who built a family concern that sold sand, gravel, lime and coal into a Chicago business empire worth billions. James Crown, Chicago Businessman and Avid Philanthropist, Dies at 70 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z It documents, for example, the former Black Panther headquarters raided by police and a sweatshop that imprisoned immigrant workers. A guide to the guidebooks that told the world Los Angeles was a paradise 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z For a while, Nike’s brand was closely associated with sweatshops. Facts About Nike Sweatshops 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z There he ridiculed the Washington Post for publishing a photo gallery of child laborers from 100 years ago, including miners and sweatshop workers as young as 10. Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The poorest groups are also most commonly exploited by MNCs that contract with large factories or sweatshops in developing countries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z “He grew up the great-grandson of a sweatshop worker whose son turned a construction-supply company into an empire. Throughout his own career as a business and civic leader, Jim continued to drive that legacy forward.” James Crown, Chicago Businessman and Avid Philanthropist, Dies at 70 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In 1994, freshly out of law school, Su led the first of 72 Thai garment workers to freedom after their rescue from an El Monte sweatshop and subsequent detention by the U.S. Column: Julie Su would be a perfect Labor secretary. That's why Big Business hates her 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z While most people know that Nike operated sweatshops, most people don’t have knowledge beyond that. Facts About Nike Sweatshops 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z However, over the last decade, workers in reality TV have grown increasingly vocal about the grueling hours, low pay and poor benefits they face in what has been likened to an industry sweatshop. In past strikes, networks turned to reality TV. Now it's more complicated. 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Major MNCs like Nike, Gap, Forever 21, Walmart, Victoria’s Secret, and others have been harshly criticized for using sweatshops to produce their shoes and clothing lines. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Ms. Su helped the workers win compensation from the companies that used the sweatshop as a supplier. Biden Nominates Julie Su as U.S. Labor Secretary 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Colasante suspects that the paper was left by a worker when the space was a garment sweatshop. Georgetown mansion on the market for $6.7 million 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Hong Kong was an assault on the senses, noisy, smelly, a city of extremes - from gaudy mansions on Victoria Peak to the "dark satanic" sweatshops at the north end of Kowloon. Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z All the while, they pay little to no income tax and exploit sweatshop labor overseas. America's theater of the absurd: Our politics has become an endless carnival 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The multinational technology company Apple Inc. has faced intense criticism in recent years for its use of foreign-owned sweatshops in Asia. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "I had a brand new Mack cab-over, and me and one of the warehousemen would make the rounds picking up furniture" at illegal manufacturing sweatshop "all over South Central L.A." Mike Davis' blue-collar odyssey to "City of Quartz": From trucker to legendary leftist writer 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Stalls in the basement were used as workstations in the sweatshop, but that wasn’t their original purpose, Colasante said. Georgetown mansion on the market for $6.7 million 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Formally, Fernandez’s flat and anonymous sweatshop facades turn photography’s New Topographic movement, influential since the 1970s, on its head. Review: Christina Fernandez's photographs, on view in Riverside, are a major pivot in Chicano art 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The oligarchs, as they did in the 19th century, exploit workers, including child labor, in Dickensian sweatshops in countries such as China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. On strike for a better world: Labor conflict is coming — and the ruling class will fight back hard 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Those hired overseas experienced their own problems, however, because outsourcing often led to the rise of sweatshops, factories where poorly paid workers labor in dangerous environments. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z I got to see inside the sweatshop furniture industry and this whole new industrial economy of Los Angeles based on sweatshops. Mike Davis' blue-collar odyssey to "City of Quartz": From trucker to legendary leftist writer 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z She bounced around from L.A. factory to L.A. factory, avoiding wage theft and dodging sweatshops, before finally finding a job as a buttonhole operator on a production line, earning a decent wage. Shout out to all the hands that touched a Nancy Stella Soto 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The industrialists who wrote trade deals to profit from unemployment and underemployment of U.S. workers and sweatshop labor overseas are omnipotent. Can we stop pretending that America is a functioning democracy? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s called a sweatshop for a reason,” she said. Heat waves can be deadly. California workers, lawmakers push for federal labor protections 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z She particularly opposed sweatshop labor and urged the passage of an eight-hour-workday law in order to specifically protect women in the workplace. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Part of my job was to write local news stories for the Houston Chronicle — even though I lived in Chicago — and select fake American-sounding bylines for stories written in virtual sweatshops in the Philippines. Perspective | How ‘pink slime’ journalism exploits our faith in local news 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z It has set up small factories in the countryside to lure workers back home from sweatshops in Bangkok, part of an effort to combat the urban migration that has debilitated rural economies. ‘Captain Condom’ Turned the Tide in Thailand’s War on AIDS and Overpopulation 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Workers, whether in the vast sweatshops in China or the decayed ruins of the Rust Belt, struggle on subsistence wages without job protection or unions. The Four Horsemen of the 21st century: War, capitalism, fascism and mass death 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Charles Kernaghan, who showed how U.S. aid subsidized the construction of sweatshops in developing countries, is dead at 74. How Much Can the Fed Do? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Despite the efforts of firefighters, 146 workers died in the fire, mostly because the owners had trapped them on the sweatshop floors. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 2007 he showed that crucifixes sold at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan came from a Chinese sweatshop. Charles Kernaghan, Scourge of Sweatshops, Is Dead at 74 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z For two decades, Mr. Kernaghan spearheaded a string of highly publicized campaigns against child labor, corporate greed and sweatshop conditions, taking on companies including Nike, Target and Walmart. Charles Kernaghan, who crusaded against sweatshops, dies at 74 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Tang’s parents worked at a sweatshop making garments. Why California cuisine is having an unlikely moment in one of Asia's food capitals 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z "We have to break the old mentality of the packing plant being a sweatshop," Kingsbury said. Fifth-generation cattle rancher aims to build biggest U.S. beef plant 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z “Let me tell you. I was like, OK, I know that I said I wanted something. But this is sweatshop vibes. And I’m about to go.” L.A. artist Maggi Simpkins is reimagining the narrative possibilities of jewelry design 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Kernaghan’s first big exposé came in 1992, when he and his colleagues showed how American aid subsidized the construction of sweatshops in the developing world. Charles Kernaghan, Scourge of Sweatshops, Is Dead at 74 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z For pennies a day, a seamstress might sew collar after collar in her own home, or a number of clothing workers could toil furiously together in a tiny sweatshop. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z An online storefront the two operated, OVO sweatshop, took its name from the rapper Drake’s record label, October’s Very Own. Ex-Party Producer Charged in $2.7 Million Bitcoin-Laundering Scheme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There, in sweatshops, young children work long hours under wretched conditions. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Or how many have become janitors or dishwashers, or seamstresses in sweatshops, or have found other menial work. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1995, after spending months investigating El Salvadoran factories that supplied the Gap, he released a report showing how much the apparel company relied on sweatshop labor. Charles Kernaghan, Scourge of Sweatshops, Is Dead at 74 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Foxconn’s plants in particular have come under scrutiny for their sweatshop conditions and worker suicides. Apple investigates Indian iPhone plant after workers strike following mass food poisoning 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The current truck driver shortage is rooted in sweatshop working conditions imposed by the trucking industry, not a lack of qualified drivers. Opinion | Solutions for the Shortage of Truck Drivers 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z To many film workers, particularly those on lower-budget projects, Hollywood’s dream factory is too often beginning to feel more like a sweatshop. ‘Rust’ tragedy shines harsh light on economics of low-budget movies: ‘We can’t keep grinding people down’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Amazon employees have complained about long work hours, insufficient breaks and safety, with Smalls and others likening working conditions to modern-day sweatshops. Group asks NLRB to OK union vote at Amazon’s NY warehouse 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Her father, a tailor, found work in a sweatshop and died when Stella was 2. The last time America broke apart: How author Kevin Boyle retold the 1960s 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Under the bill, she said, California “will no longer be the sweatshop capital of America.” California 1st to require hourly wages in garment industry 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The novel insists that Benny is not the problem in a world where he is bullied at school and the planet and human beings are suffering from sweatshop capitalism. In ‘The Book of Form and Emptiness,’ a grieving musician hears the voice of a dead parent 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z She was raised by her mother, who worked as a sweatshop seamstress, and her maternal grandparents, both of whom were born in Mexico. Yolanda López, artist who elevated Latina life, dies at 78 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z That law was motivated in part by the incident four years earlier in which 72 undocumented Thai immigrants, who were essentially enslaved, were freed in a raid on an El Monte sweatshop complex. 'Basic human dignity': California bill requiring hourly wage for garment workers passes Assembly 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z When she was interviewing cinematographers, one candidate said he wanted to make sure that the textile factory looked like a dangerous sweatshop. Patricia Cardoso's 'Real Women Have Curves' was landmark Latina cinema, but Hollywood shut her out. Until now 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The law was prompted by a discovery four years prior that 72 undocumented Thai immigrants were essentially enslaved in an El Monte sweatshop. Wage theft is a problem for L.A. garment workers. A California bill aims to fix it. Again 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z “Certainly, the federal government can set a minimum wage so there isn’t sweatshops and things like that. That’s fine.” Cox served with subpoena, Elder blasted for remarks on women at California recall debate 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Workers at a Houston, Texas facility that processes repairs for Apple, Dell, and Lenovo reportedly say they are working in “sweatshop” conditions, according to a story from Insider. Workers at a repair facility used by Apple compare conditions to sweatshops 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z “I have the right to choose a slow lifestyle. I didn’t do anything destructive to society. Do we have to work 12 hours a day in a sweatshop, and is that justice?” These Chinese Millennials Are ‘Chilling,’ and Beijing Isn’t Happy 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The second cluster, late last year, was tracked by health officials to a sweatshop seafood business, which depends on immigration officers turning a blind eye to workers trafficked from neighboring countries. After Lavish Nights of Clubbing in Bangkok, a Covid Outbreak 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z He said he has worked in numerous sweatshops in old buildings infested with insects and rats, with workers crammed into dark, poorly ventilated rooms that had only one small window. Wage theft is a problem for L.A. garment workers. A California bill aims to fix it. Again 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Southern and Eastern European immigrants came in droves to work in factories and sweatshops, powering the Second Industrial Revolution — and then lawmakers passed strict quotas capping annual immigration by nationality. Immigrant workers are essential to America's future — and we need a new paradigm for justice 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The collective was founded by Nasreen Sheikh, who survived two years as a child laborer in a sweatshop. Celebrate Mother’s Day by upping your gift game this year 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Here she was, asking people to turn their living rooms into sweatshops. How sewing masks for the vulnerable stitched together an empowering Facebook community 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z The manslaughter trial of sweatshop owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, a.k.a. the "Shirtwaist Kings", resulted in their acquittal. 110 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, its lessons are still unlearned 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z “But how many of you are currently exploiting Asian overseas labor? Or employing Asian women in sweatshops?” How activists are mobilizing on Instagram to fight anti-Asian racism after Atlanta 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a sweatshop,” Mary Kenyon quipped, turning from the iron she was using to press stitched quilt blocks. Madison group has distributed nearly 800 unique quilts 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z I nearly expected to walk into some kind of sweatshop, or at least something akin to the studio of Koons, who has been known to work with up to 120 assistants at a time. The Surprising Ascent of KAWS 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z She received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, known as a “genius grant,” in 2001 for her work defending Thai garment workers who worked for 18 hours a day at a sweatshop outside Los Angeles. Biden nominates California’s Su as deputy labor secretary 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Like a lot of Cambodian Americans in Long Beach, Saro was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, and her parents worked at factories and sweatshops after settling in America. Column: Meet Suely Saro, the first Cambodian American elected official in Long Beach history 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Mrs. Chiang opened a second Mandarin in Beverly Hills in 1975, a few years after the San Francisco Culinary Workers’ Union targeted the Mandarin on Ghirardelli Square, calling it a “sweatshop.” Cecilia Chiang, grand dame of Chinese cooking in America, dies at 100 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Shadowy fireworks and cigarette factories, textile sweatshops and loosely regulated construction sites often employ children. As Covid-19 Closes Schools, the World’s Children Go to Work 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z SB 1399 was an attempt to update reforms passed in 1999 four years after 72 Thai immigrants here illegally were found virtually enslaved in an El Monte sweatshop. Apparel industry wage-reform bill dies in Assembly after failing to come up for a vote 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “It is a regulated sector, it’s a sector that is – I hate for somebody to call it a sweatshop or anything near a sweatshop.” Sexual assault, forced labor, wage theft: garment workers in Jordan suffer for US brands 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Like a number of the city’s famed tycoons, he went from a menial role, toiling in a Hong Kong sweatshop, to founding a multi-million dollar empire. Hong Kong's rebel mogul and pro-democracy voice 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Hawley said the bill highlights the hypocrisy of corporate companies that preach political correctness and humanity, but then outsource their business to foreign sweatshops and work camps. Colorado Rep. Buck to introduce Sen. Hawley's corporate 'slave labor' bill in the House 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z It was also host to a fierce sweatshop trade, and López’s family were privy to its harsh hours and low pay. Meet Samelys López, the ex-homeless candidate running for New York's most contested seat 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The project, he said, “will not only help bring our essential medicines home but actually do so in a way that is cost competitive with the sweatshops and pollution havens of the world.” Trump to Tap New Company to Make Covid-19 Drugs in the U.S. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z The artists who create movie and TV visual effects have long complained of long hours and difficult working conditions without health insurance or pensions, sometimes compared to electronic sweatshops. Hollywood has gone home. Why are many visual effects artists still going into work? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Arcadia has denied using sweatshops and expressed disappointment when it has been "found a supplier had clearly breached" its code of conduct. Sir Philip Green 'has no intention' to watch Greed film 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Arcadia, which owns Topshop, has denied using sweatshops and expressed disappointment when it "found a supplier had clearly breached our strict code of conduct". Steve Coogan: We ignore gap between rich and poor 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The picture the employees painted was of bank sales offices that resembled sweatshops of the 1930s or retail warehouses of the present day. Column: That Wells Fargo accounts scandal was even worse than you can imagine 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Hong Kong residents advanced up the economic ladder, as sweatshop laborers rose to become bosses with factories on the mainland and even real estate or shipping tycoons. Yellow or Blue? In Hong Kong, Businesses Choose Political Sides 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z However, Adams did acknowledge Gervais' "truth to power" jokes, pointing to his attacks on Disney, Amazon and Apple — which, as the host put it, relied on "sweatshops in China." Ricky Gervais' fiery Golden Globes monologue slamming Hollywood downplayed, ignored by much of media 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z "Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China," Gervais said. Ricky Gervais slams Apple over Chinese factories 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, students played a large role in calling attention to Nike’s use of sweatshops and child labor in its supply chain. Tech recruiters were once welcomed on campus. Now they face protests 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z At the same time, the company is moving backwards on its accountability on exploited sweatshop labor. I'm happy to boycott Chick-fil-A – but that doesn't make Popeyes progressive | Rashad Robinson 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Without a meaningful economic development program, Haitian workers are left to labor in sweatshops that pay the lowest sub-poverty wages in the hemisphere. Pro-democracy movement in Haiti swells despite lethal police violence 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Unless the new Mexican labor agencies and inspections this new law requires are funded and staffed, wages for many Mexican workers will remain at sweatshop levels. Opinion | Debbie Dingell: NAFTA 2.0 needs upgrading before Democrats approve it 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, in recent days stores, shisha shops and tailoring sweatshops in Mayfair had to bring down their shutters on two occasions, fearing attacks. 'We are a target': wave of xenophobic attacks sweeps Johannesburg 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Located between the sweatshops of Lower Manhattan and the department stores of Ladies’ Mile, it was the site of boisterous labor meetings, including the first Labor Day parade in 1882. How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the U.S. 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z The classic example in this case is Nike: In the 1990s, the company was the target of boycotts over its use of sweatshop labor. Why SoulCycle and Equinox could be especially vulnerable to boycotts 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z These “shops” had something in common with the garment district sweatshops that many of the artists’ family members worked in. Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z One current Google employee characterized the working conditions for contractors who train the algorithms used to power Google's several Assistant products as a "white collar sweatshop." Democrats blast Google as 'anti-worker,' demand its fleet of contractors become permanent employees 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z "We heard from an Amazon worker who described the warehouse as a '21st century sweatshop.'" AOC, Sanders demand probe of Amazon's 'grueling, unsafe' workplace conditions 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s also useful for tackling that sweatshop perception, which gets more attention as Amazon’s heft and profile grow. Amazon tries to prove it’s not a Dickensian workhouse 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Economists have tended to believe that sweatshop conditions beat the alternative of even more extreme poverty in rural areas, and they have certainly been enough to draw workers to fast-growing cities around the world. How espionage and ambition built the first factory 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z A sweatshop worker in Vietnam tasked with assembling the dolls disconnects one of its security protocols in a fit of pique. Review: Look out, Buzz. There’s another good toy movie out 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Johnson calls the office “a sweatshop in America.” Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z “It’s like a white-collar sweatshop,” one current Google employee said. 'White-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors slam tech giant 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But when it comes to the perception of Amazon as a sweatshop, the company’s rebuttals are more than just words. Amazon tries to prove it’s not a Dickensian workhouse 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “It’s like a white-collar sweatshop,” said one current Google employee. 'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z As the industry grows, Leicester is grappling with the rise of its darker side: so-called sweatshops that don't adhere to employment laws. The city fighting fast-fashion sweatshops 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The dancers may benefit from the backstories, explained in the program notes, of sweatshops and the ravages of global capitalism, but what matters to us is the dancing. Akram Khan Remakes “Giselle” 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z This is essentially the slave labor/sweatshop staff in the United States that is not only legal, but arranged by the prison system. Hemp is our "Green New Deal" 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z And it vows never to become a sweatshop. 'Dignity and respect': Dominican factory vows to never be a sweatshop 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z How "resistant" or "oppositional" is it really for him to be allied with a multibillion-dollar global corporation that exploits children in sweatshops. Trump, Colin Kaepernick and the Super Bowl: Scholar David Leonard on white privilege in sports 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z In one story, two young Syrian siblings, stranded in Turkey and working in sweatshops, dream of Angela Merkel as “a young woman in white robes with silky soft skin and long, golden hair.” The Deep Pathology at the Heart of the Scandal at Der Spiegel 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z To avert this problem, policy should therefore be fighting against worker exploitation, irrespective of whether workers are employed by Amazon or mom-and-pop sweatshops. In antitrust, size isn’t everything 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z His father washed dishes in a Chinese restaurant; his mother worked in a Chinatown sweatshop. Chinese American artist Kam Mak creates the new Forever stamp honoring the Lunar New Year 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z America’s sweatshop firing on all cylinders; hundreds of millions of “customer promises” fulfilled. @amazonvestlife. How your holiday shopping drives us Amazon workers to exhaustion 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Gifford became a polarizing figure as she was accused of using sweatshop labor in the offshore factories that manufactured her clothing line. Kathie Lee Gifford is leaving NBC's 'Today' show 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Nike’s alleged use of overseas sweatshop factories to produce shoes and clothing since the 1990s would have been a death blow for a lesser manufacturer. Corporations are not people too. Seriously, don't kid yourself 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The work, painted in 2012 to protest the use of sweatshops, was not created to travel, English said. Street artist Ron English vowed to whitewash a $730,000 Banksy mural. Then things got even weirder 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Similarly, Seattle should not subsidize the city’s academic sweatshops with free tuition unless it first fixes the labor practices in its colleges so that there is equal pay and fair treatment for all current faculty. No free tuition until Seattle College teachers are paid living wages 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z A secret sweatshop is apparently less believable than the government murdering millions of children In the last scene of the first Thinning movie, it’s revealed that the students aren’t actually executed. Logan Paul’s new movie is the zombified husk of a YA dystopian thriller 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z I mean, what sort of socks would he wear to depict workers in sweatshops? LOVERRO: Kaepernick’s pig socks missing from Nike ad 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The organization spent more than a century investigating labor issues in fields, sweatshops and well-known corporations, including Burger King. The searing photos that helped end child labor in America 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z He said he plans to donate the profit to a charity that fights sweatshops. Street artist Ron English vowed to whitewash a $730,000 Banksy mural. Then things got even weirder 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z I see no impact by Woody Guthrie’s union songs on today’s sweatshop labour. Louder than bombs: my journey in war and music 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Ultimately, we should be campaigning against child labour of any sort in any country, from the textile sweatshops of Bangladesh to the brick factories of Peru. Child labour is never OK. But for multinationals it is an outrage | Sarah Boseley 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Accepting fair trade policies and closing sweatshops may be good for the world, but is potentially disastrous for a firm’s immediate financial success. The trouble with charitable billionaires 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z By the 1950s, these warehouses were mostly being used for storage or sweatshops, and the neighborhood, increasingly decrepit, earned the nickname Hell’s Hundred Acres. The Last Artists of SoHo (and TriBeCa) 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The signage says, “Both are sweatshop free, identical in quality, different in price. We are... ethically made regardless of the location. You decide.” American Apparel returns as an 'inclusive' online retailer 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Attractive as the prospect might sound, Cuban politicians fear it would turn their country into a sweatshop making cheap goods for rich Americans. Cuba bids goodbye to the revolutionary generation 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z In stores the fakes are often mixed in with genuine pieces but sold at a discount, forcing jewelers who painstakingly craft each piece by hand to compete with counterfeits produced in sweatshops. Biggest Fake Native American Art Conspiracy Revealed 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The "gig" economy is just a return to piece work and sweatshops. A Supreme Court Showdown Could Shrink Unions’ Power 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z His success shows that industrialisation is not just about vast sweatshops or belching chimneys. What is cheaper than beer and “gives you energy”? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z "I may never see the sweatshop that makes my T-shirt. But if you travel there, you meet someone, the taxi driver or whoever... The things they don't want you to see, you will hear." Does your holiday pass the human rights test? 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Patrick Pizzella, nominee for deputy labour secretary, lobbied in support of a programme that imported indentured labourers to the Marianas Islands to work in sweatshops where there were reports of forced abortions and beatings. As State of the Union nears, is America great again for the working class? 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “It’s not a sweatshop. These women want to be here. Sometimes in our world, people mumble and grown about Mondays. Here, they are lining up on Monday.” Inmates making clothing worn by preemie babies in Salem 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He used his bulky camera equipment to investigate sweatshops and other dubious labor practices. Jon Alpert’s Fidel Castro documentary morally toxic 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Her goals include keeping families out of shelters, poison out of drinking water and children out of sweatshops. How a Philadelphia nun became the unlikely face of conscientious capitalism 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z The sweatshops supply not only the Feirinha, but known labels too. Under cover of darkness: inside São Paulo's vast illegal Feirinha night market 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Ana, who grew up on a ranch and attended a small college in El Salvador, worked as a seamstress in a sweatshop during the day and in a fast-food restaurant at night. Cristian Roldan pledged allegiance to U.S. to honor his parents 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The TUC is concerned EU rules on workers' rights could be diluted when the UK leaves, saying this would produce a "sweatshop Brexit". Brexit: Theresa May accused by TUC of 'Santa wish list' - BBC News 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Panipat may help the planet but also exhibits the least attractive features of the textile business in developing countries: sweatshop conditions for workers, rock-bottom pay, use of child labour and so on. Panipat, the global centre for recycling textiles, is fading 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z How Forever 21 avoids liability for sweatshop factory wages. California Today: Firefighters, at Less Than $2 an Hour 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z They come to sell what are, for the most part, sweatshop goods: thousands of colourful T-shirts, blouses, shorts, trousers and dresses. Under cover of darkness: inside São Paulo's vast illegal Feirinha night market 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It helped build an immigrant counterculture that, in turn, enabled sweatshop workers in the garment industry to begin to form unions that demanded — and won — higher pay and workplace protections. The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z They’re trained health care professionals — and some of them might be reluctant to apply to work in what seems from the outside like a sweatshop. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Activists were intent on showing a much darker picture, revealing how the record of globalisation consisted mostly of farmers pushed off their land and the rampant proliferation of sweatshops. Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z She also received unwanted scrutiny when three labor activists were arrested in May for investigating alleged sweatshop practices at a factory in China where Ivanka Trump-brand shoes have been manufactured. Opinion | Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Like Leidi, most of the Bolivians toil in improvised home sweatshops, churning out the cheapest possible clothing away from Brazilian labour laws. Under cover of darkness: inside São Paulo's vast illegal Feirinha night market 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In parts of our low-pay labour market – like Leicester’s resurgent textiles industry – we’re not seeing technology being used to modernise workplaces and increase productivity, but a return to Victorian-style sweatshops that flout employment law. Mark Zuckerberg’s got some cheek, advocating a universal basic income | Sonia Sodha 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The epidemic caused a media sensation – suicides and sweatshop conditions in the House of iPhone. Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z The local adverse effects that activists pointed to – sweatshop labour, starving farmers – were increasingly obscured by the staggering GDP numbers and fantastical images of gleaming skylines coming out of China. Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z “Nor should it be mistaken for child labour, sweatshops and all those horror stories we hear now and then happening in let’s say China or Bangladesh,” she said. Revealed: the Romanian site where Louis Vuitton makes its Italian shoes 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z “You cannot operate a public service with a sweatshop employment model,” said Todd Brogan, a union organizer with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1764 at a recent demonstration urging Metro to stop using contractors for paratransit. How problems with MetroAccess have left D.C.’s most vulnerable commuters stranded 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z If she does neither, it will be reasonable to ask whether sweatshop labor and political repression are now part of the fabric of U.S.-China relations. Opinion | Is China offering Ivanka Trump unseemly favors? 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z “Three quarters of our participants reported two or more violations of their legal rights in their current job. This is the definition of a sweatshop,” said Brittany Scott, senior research strategist at NESRI. New study finds “more sweatshops than Starbucks” in Chicago 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “They should not be sweatshops. They should be places that operate at the highest possible level, especially with the billions and billions of dollars that we are about to invest in them.” Port Authority Wage Campaign Advances as Union Takes Fight to Albany 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Especially with immigrant families, where it was not uncommon to see the children of janitors and sweatshop workers become doctors, lawyers and business owners. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z But wary of a future stuck in "IT outsourcing sweatshops", she headed to St Petersburg to study further and land a bigger role. Why is Russia so good at encouraging women into tech? - BBC News 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Now, instead of being garment sweatshops, many maquiladoras in Tijuana employ a new generation of Mexican engineers and skilled technicians to make orthopedic devices, surgical equipment and catheters. Lifesaving devices come from places like Tijuana, and Trump border taxes will affect end-user pricing 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z If you look at it from the perspective of somebody in Bangladesh who works 12 hours a day in a sweatshop, again it looks like a bad idea. Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z A year later women immigrant textile workers were on strike against the terrible sweatshops where they were forced to work, facing down police violence and repression by the owners. Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again | Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z “But to say that his conduct warrants the same penalty as individuals who are importing women and children into the United States, locking them in sweatshops, taking their passports — it sort of beggars belief.” Sound evidence: Hotel maid uses cellphone to record man beating prostitute 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “We’re herded into these small spaces,” one former model said, saying the apartment “was like a sweatshop”. 'The Trump name is becoming toxic': model agency faces rumored boycott 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z At the Molezu factory — a sweatshop and pollution haven by some standards — workers I speak to aren’t worried that a trade war could slow their production line. Trump Still Has Lots of Face at This Chinese Factory 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z That hasn’t come to pass, but the “cheap fashion” model, made possible by sweatshops in places such as Bangladesh, comes uncomfortably close. Seattle’s future isn’t what it used to be 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The main labor unions of the day left them well alone to work under vicious conditions, or – as in the case of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory – to be burnt alive in these sweatshops. Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again | Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor. The Trump-Era Corporate Boycott 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z And China, he writes, is killing millions of U.S. jobs with products mass produced in pollution-spewing sweatshops using “slave” labor. As China Pivots, Trump Risks Fighting an Old War 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z It’s no less lowbrow, but it feels like it was actually made by happy — albeit smutty — elves, and not disgruntled sweatshop workers. ‘Office Christmas Party’: Comedy, made by smutty elves 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Murillo read it, and was amazed at how resonant it was—its depiction of the slave sounded very similar to what he’d heard about sweatshops. The Ex-Con Scholars of Berkeley 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The labor organizer, Rose Schneiderman, coined the phrase “bread and roses” in 1912 while organizing against sweatshops in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Strikes were a part of Women's Day before. With Trump, they will be again | Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z American factory workers are threatened more by automation than Chinese sweatshops. U.S. Workers to Lose in China Trade War 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z China isn’t the Dickensian sweatshop portrayed in Made in China. As China Pivots, Trump Risks Fighting an Old War 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Adult refugees are also working in the sweatshops, making jeans for the companies Zara and Mango. Syrian child refugees making clothes for British companies in Turkish sweatshops, BBC investigation found 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Various groups in the EU have sought to stop the agreement, claiming that it would undermine labor and environmental standards, even though Canada is not exactly notorious for sweatshops, or violating workers' rights. Small Special Interests, Big Influence 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He made a name for himself fighting for a state labor code after a deadly sweatshop fire in 1911. What You Should Know About the Man Behind the Alfred E. Smith Dinner 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In May, a single mother and sweatshop worker named Maria Teresa Rivera was released after serving four years of her 40-year sentence. Where Women with Zika Fear Prison 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z At only 9 years old, Cheung joined his mother working at a sweatshop in El Monte. How I Made It: Stephen Cheung went from cutting threads in a sweatshop to cutting global trade deals 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Retailers’ demands grew in importance after years of consumer protest about child labor, excessive hours, sweatshop conditions and the purchasing of ingredients from warlords. Why Vizio has no official standards for how its suppliers treat workers 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z To make ends meet, Raffaela and my mother, Rose — then all of 15 — stitched dolls’ outfits in a local sweatshop, doing piecework on the side, sewing stars on sailors’ uniforms. After 75 Years, the Cheese Stands Alone 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The country wants to shift from its position as the world’s sweatshop to become a powerhouse of creativity and invention. Sleepy giant 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z However, in practice, the threat of punishment and grinding poverty leaves laborers with no option but to keep working in sweatshops making the everyday things we consume. The Developed World Is Missing the Point About Slavery 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Our fellow citizens endured the grueling colonial and pioneer periods; revolutionary, civil, and world wars; slavery, indentured servitude, sweatshops, the Depression. What 'Hamilton' Says About Grit and Privilege 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Ramón Morales arrived at Harvard in 1972 by way of El Barrio, the Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords and a mother who toiled in sweatshops. A Voice for the Bronx’s Powerless Falls Silent 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Asked about child abuse in the city where Hamza lives, his manager agrees it is rife in other sweatshops. From war in Syria to a Turkish sweatshop for child refugees 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The teenager who was put to work in the sweatshop says he was mature enough to brush off Islamic State's brutality. Scarred Yazidi boys escape Islamic State combat training 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The West and the global consumer can help end the modern slavery found in places like the plantations, sweatshops and garment factories found “over there.” The Developed World Is Missing the Point About Slavery 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z But beneath that alluring surface lurk the old sweatshop demons--they are just better dressed. Ad Agencies Need Young Talent. Cue the Beanbag Chairs. 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z People are certainly thinking outside the traditional sweatshop box and looking for alternative ways to get their fitness kicks. Working it out: Do we really need to pay for exercise? - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z And so are more than a third of the workers in this sweatshop. From war in Syria to a Turkish sweatshop for child refugees 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The teenager said he was made to work in a sweatshop with other boys, sewing military clothes for the fighters. Scarred Yazidi boys escape Islamic State combat training 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In an October 2014 Wired story, Adrian Chen documented the work of front line moderators operating in modern-day sweatshops. The secret rules of the internet 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Her mother worked in a sweatshop, while her father hovered over his computer, losing money in the stock market. Beating Tragedy and Odds, 10 Earn New York Times College Scholarships 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z He wants to put "an end to China's illegal export subsidies and lax labour and environmental standards. No more sweatshops or pollution havens stealing jobs from American workers". US Election 2016: Are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders right about trade? - BBC News 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z It turned out I’d joined a digital sweatshop, where people were packed into huge rooms, side by side, at long tables. Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z No where is this more prevalent than at our nation's ports where short-haul port drivers face similar sweatshop working conditions as described herein. Long-Haul Sweatshops 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z One industry analyst calls trucks “sweatshops on wheels.” Killers on the Road: Driving's Link to Violence 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The Triangle shirtwaist factory had gone up in flames nearby, eventually killing 146 workers, most of them women trapped in a locked, 10th-floor sweatshop. Your Friday Briefing 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Just as in the early 2000s when companies began pledging to combat sweatshops and child labor, the private sector is now adding wildlife protection to its corporate responsibilities. JetBlue, Etsy, and Others Want to Help Stop Wildlife Crime Worse, there are plenty digital sweatshops that are multinational fortune 500 sized, private and public alike. Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Hopefully a new President and Congress will place more importance on enforcing the labor rights of truck drivers so they can collectively bargain to end their sweatshop conditions. Long-Haul Sweatshops 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z A sweatshop fire in 2013 that killed seven Chinese workers may have marked a turning point. China nostra 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z At Florida State, one student reported that the new introductory economics course included lessons that “sweatshop labor wasn’t bad,” and “climate change wasn’t caused by humans and isn’t a big issue.” The secrets behind the Koch brothers: Inside the remarkable new book that details their dirtiest deeds 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z They worked in the sweatshops, and their kids became doctors and researchers and business owners. My sister wants to vote for Donald Trump – but I won't let him divide us | Linda Boroff 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In most cities, this means a soulless zone of sweatshop factories, I reply. Peru’s rainbow barrio clings to its ideals as a nation drifts to the right 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The carbon emissions and sweatshop labor of their Black Friday sales will be sung to passersby.” The Church of Stop Shopping doesn't pull punches on its return to New York 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Prato’s sweatshops turn imported cloth into cheap garments with “Made in Italy” labels, easy to sell throughout the EU. China nostra 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Consumers regularly say they’re willing to pay more for goods that are certified fair trade — and of course they do, since sweatshop sneakers and exploited coffee farmers are morally yucky. CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you customers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z H & M has been controversial in recent years, as critics accuse it of producing clothes in Third World “sweatshops,” and the new collection is built around cut-rate versions of Rousteing’s garments. The Instagram King of French Fashion 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The earthquake revealed city government corruption and crooked practices of slumlords and sweatshop owners. Thirty years later, Mexicans are still getting ready for the next big quake 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Somehow I get this mental image of a sweatshop filled with visual-effects artists being whipped every 20 minutes, with orders to bring the episode in on deadline. Fall TV Preview 2015: Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what’s worth watching Soon after he left the presidency, Nike faced intensifying news reports about its labor practices, in particular sweatshop working conditions overseas. Richard Donahue, presidential aide who became Nike president, dies at 88 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z “Orange,” too, has a brutal lottery scene, in which inmates are randomly assigned to a garment sweatshop. The Rise of Do-Gooder TV 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z When Nike wearers learned in the 1990s that the company's pricey shoes were manufactured in Southeast Asian sweatshops, with some workers making as little as 14 cents an hour, a global boycott seemed reasonable. Boycott Amazon? It's not an easy choice 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Of course what you’re paying for at American Apparel is "Made in the USA," “sweatshop free,” and “fair wages.” Why you should be sad that American Apparel may go out of business 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z While people do need to work, the idea that American companies are beneficent organizations helping out the world’s poor with the gift of a job in a sweatshop is ridiculous. “No one is making them stop”: Why corporations outsource catastrophe — and workers pay the price 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Within weeks of the quota ending, underground sweatshops appeared with terrible working conditions. Let’s abandon the Democrats: On TPP, workers’ rights and income inequality, they are as bad as GOP 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z And while he pays writers reasonably well now, it wasn’t so long ago that Gawker Media was a virtual sweatshop for freelance bloggers. Gawker’s Moment of Truth 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z And it's clear that, unpleasant though the conditions may be, Amazon is no forced-labor sweatshop for its white-collar employees. Boycott Amazon? It's not an easy choice 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z In a lot of these sweatshop factory scenarios, these people that are working in these places are not being trained to do anything other than one really small step. “This is a very painful reality”: The “staggering” human and environmental cost of fast fashion 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z So there’s a market in both being a better sweatshop and also in checking and verifying that a place is a better sweatshop. Paul Mason Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Markets And Capitalism 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Nike could sue a country that restricted the importation of products made with sweatshop labor. Democrats Don't Realize Trans-Pacific Partnership Debate Is Real Trade War 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z I am allowed to argue that sweatshops, even child labour in them, are just great and you’re all allowed to shout at me for doing so. If Robert Reich Learned Some Economics He Might Even Be Interesting 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z He pointed to how Nike improved the working conditions at its overseas plants after sweatshop conditions were publicized in the 1990s. With Obama on hand, Nike announces it might make shoes in the U.S. again 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I want to switch over to talking about the people who are creating the clothing, and about this narrative discussed in the film that sweatshops are good because the alternatives are worse. “This is a very painful reality”: The “staggering” human and environmental cost of fast fashion 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Some number of consumers of sweatshop output would prefer that they were a little less sweatshop. Paul Mason Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Markets And Capitalism 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z A customer review on the salon’s Yelp page described it as “basically a sweatshop,” and she felt it. The Price of Nice Nails 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He aided Pacific Gas and Electric in complex bankruptcy proceedings, and defended Nike in a suit that claimed the company was lying about its sweatshop practices. Did Laurence Tribe Sell Out? 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The jobs in those textile sweatshops pay better than most of the jobs in the surrounding economy. To Defend Child Labour In The Textiles Sweatshops 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z When I defend sweatshops, people always ask me: But would you want to work in a sweatshop? John Oliver Really Needs To Understand Clothing Sweatshops And Wages 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That sweatshop owner is also playing against clients with an army of compliance officers, themselves routinely harassed by NGOs with secret cameras. Paul Mason Doesn't Understand The Difference Between Markets And Capitalism 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z He has said ending sweatshop labor is one of his life’s goals. Christie’s ‘sit down and shut up’ foe is running for state office 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z BANGKOK, Thailand — No one expects to find paradise inside a Cambodian sweatshop. The slave labor behind your favorite clothing brands: Gap, H&M and more exposed 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Thus, if we refuse to purchase things made by whatever children are working in the sweatshops we push said children out into those lower paying jobs elsewhere. To Defend Child Labour In The Textiles Sweatshops 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Yet sweatshops are only a symptom of poverty, not a cause, and banning them closes off one route out of poverty. John Oliver Really Needs To Understand Clothing Sweatshops And Wages 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z A few operate as little more than digital sweatshops, funneling workers into narrow practice areas and subjecting them to repetitive, unrewarding tasks. Vietnam's IT Workers Value Passion Over Pay 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The New York Times doesn’t publish stories about Boko Haram and Chinese sweatshop abuses and bankrupt California municipalities out of some grim compulsion, a dour eat-your-peas impulse, a perverse desire to ruin your day. The Bad News About Good News 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The abuses led to the rise of unions and the antitrust movement, and spawned both crusading journalists who exposed sweatshops and populist politicians who railed against big business for eroding democracy. Why we give in to the giants of industry 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Others are trapped in homes as domestic servants and locked in sweatshops, unable to leave. Combat Human Trafficking By Disrupting Its Profit Cycle 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He delivered telegrams, worked in sweatshops, sang on street corners, slept in flophouses. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But we’re getting to the point where textiles is a heavily automated business and thus no longer offering those sweatshops to yet another country to be the first stage into industrialisation. Dani Rodrik's Worries About Premature Industrialisation 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He began working and sleeping in one of the city’s then numerous sweatshops, making knitwear. For Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s Rebellious Tycoon, Next Battle May Be in Court 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The company "is made in America. It's sweatshop free," she said. American Apparel shares surge 19% amid takeover speculation The cases revealed Los Angeles workplaces with "all the features of a sweatshop," said David Weil, administrator of the department's Wage and Hour Division. Southern California is hotbed for wage theft in garment industry 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z The Mail on Sunday said they were made in "sweatshop" conditions in Mauritius by workers earning 62p an hour. Feminist shirt sweatshop claim denied 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Given the £45 price tag for the T-shirts there is probably a business case for continuing at higher production costs – but what about the sweatshop workers? Paul Krugman: This Is What Development Looks Like 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Part of the problem is the stigma around apparel work, which most Americans associate with sweatshop conditions, he said. Garcetti says housing shortage, minimum wage linked in Los Angeles 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z "This is worse than anything that I ever saw in any of those Los Angeles sweatshops," Michael Eastwood, assistant district director of Department of Labour, told the Associated Press news agency. US firm fine for underpaying Indians 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z It took protests and legislation to change sweatshop conditions, but I don't see an office uprising anytime soon. The Sedentary Worker's Guide to Good Posture 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He says it's a "lazy stereotype" to think of Asian school systems, such as in Singapore, as being exam sweatshops. Hunt wants public oath for teachers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z In 2006, Jordanian sweatshop workers making clothes for Walmart said they were forced to work 20-hour days, weren’t paid for months, were hit by their supervisors and jailed if they complained. 5 new lows for Wal-Mart — just this month 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z "Innovative" is not a word people usually use to describe China, but entrepreneur Joanna Wei is trying to do her part to change the perception of a country filled with cheap knock-offs and back-breaking sweatshops. Hi-tech classes for Chinese children 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z "Innovative" is not a word people usually use to describe China, but entrepreneur Joanna Wei is trying to do her part to change the perception of a country filled with cheap knock-offs and backbreaking sweatshops. Hi-tech education for Chinese children 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z For here is Krugman, actually writing in Slate itself, arguing that sweatshops are just great for third world workers: How The Koch Brothers Propaganda Scares Slate Silly 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The pay is better than the wages in poor villages, but the work saps the workers’ energy and spirit, until they collapse from exhaustion, which is why the virtual sweatshops are called “sleep dealers.” Alex Rivera’s lost cult hit “Sleep Dealer” about immigration and drones is back On the one hand, they’ve been a moral leader against sweatshops and have proven that you can profitably make and sell clothes in the U.S. Wait, What? Why American Apparel really ousted it's CEO 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z "Forced to work exhausting hours" read the first; "Degrading sweatshop conditions" says the latest, pictured in the 25 June edition of the paper. This cry for help on a Primark label can't be ignored 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Yes, the company has been accused of running sweatshops, but overall, its stated objective is to be “sweatshop free.” Dov Charney And American Apparel: The Good, The Bad And The Creepy 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Because it makes the lives of those in those sweatshops, as well as the lives of those around them, better. How The Koch Brothers Propaganda Scares Slate Silly 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Charney also won plaudits for his "Made in America" policy, which shunned the sweatshops of Asia to support US manufacturing. American Apparel's maverick founder Dov Charney fired 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Unlike most developing countries, India has pursued professional-services-led economic growth, opting for office parks over sweatshops. The Slumdog Millionaire Architect 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z While the future clearly demands agile thinkers, we are sending them into ever more rigid exam sweatshops. The guinea pigs in Gove's model madrasas are our children. We never agreed to this experiment 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Another ordinance introduced today would require the city to buy all its uniforms from companies that do not use sweatshop labor. Group calls for $15-an-hour minimum wage in Chicago 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z And yes, we got them made in a sweatshop. How The Koch Brothers Propaganda Scares Slate Silly 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The campaign wanted to highlight the connection between the working conditions in domestic retail locations and international sweatshops: in both cases, workers suffer to produce corporate profits. You want fries with your poverty wages and exploited McDonald's workers? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Wretchedness persists for many alongside the old center’s thriving immigrant ventures, and the authorities have regularly raided textile sweatshops where laborers, largely Bolivian or Peruvian immigrants, were found toiling in slavelike conditions. São Paulo Journal: Immigrants Stir New Life Into São Paulo’s Gritty Old Center 2014-04-15T00:05:12Z More than one commentator has described Mturk as a “digital sweatshop.” It’s the Economy: Hey, Robot: Which Cat Is Cuter? 2014-04-01T09:21:10Z She calls their job a sweatshop for puns and is promptly fired. Girls Recap: Relax 2014-03-17T07:43:01Z For example, teachers using Edvantage can find economics videos explaining how the Environmental Protection Agency is bad for the environment, how sweatshops are good for third-world workers, and how the minimum wage costs workers jobs. How The Koch Brothers Propaganda Scares Slate Silly 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z They sealed the doors and confiscated the 25 sewing machines under a crackdown on an industry that is booming but blighted by illegality and sweatshop conditions. Insight: Italy's Chinese garment workshops boom as workers suffer 2013-12-29T22:11:54Z “It doesn’t exist for the exact same reason that American consumers still buy from sweatshops,” said Daniel Gordon, a former top federal procurement official who now works at George Washington University Law School. Buying Overseas Clothing, U.S. Flouts Its Own Advice 2013-12-23T03:54:09Z When Mexico set up the first maquiladoras half a century ago, they were sweatshops that simply bolted or stitched together imported parts, then exported the assembled product north across the border to the United States. Mexico’s maquiladoras: Big maq attack 2013-10-24T15:01:56Z A 2005 report for the Geneva-based International Labor Organization found workplace rules were regularly flouted in Chinese restaurants and sweatshops and that many used subcontractors hiring illegal immigrants. Insight: Hard work, long hours: French find Chinese recipe sour 2013-10-20T09:12:15Z The authors argue that China assimilates foreign technologies but also adds value and novelty The UK Chancellor George Osborne said this morning that Britain tends to view China as a "sweatshop on the Pearl River". China: Opportunity and risk for hi-tech firms 2013-10-14T14:53:03Z We run a creative shop, not a sweatshop. 'I quit' video prompts job hunters 2013-10-04T10:42:11Z The number of people brought across Italy's long coasts and borders - many of them bound for work in the sex trade, sweatshops or farms - was much larger than the official records showed, U.N. Violent gangs smuggle thousands into Italy: U.N. expert 2013-09-20T19:12:58Z Following a recent raid of three sweatshops, he said he believed he was just scratching the surface of the problem. In sweatshops, the 'Brazilian dream' goes awry 2013-09-01T16:36:56Z For Hieu at least, the horror of the sweatshop is in the past. Vietnam's lost slave labour children 2013-08-24T23:38:22Z So is China really a world leader in science or still a sweatshop? China: Opportunity and risk for hi-tech firms 2013-10-14T14:53:03Z Those who do find work in the textile factories are often treated like slaves, working in sweatshop conditions. Italy’s Garment Factory Slaves 2013-08-20T08:45:00Z It famously backfired in 2001, when a customer ordered the word “sweatshop” embroidered on their sneakers. Is DIY design more than a passing fad? 2013-07-24T10:15:03Z Putting an end to sweatshops: Students at Southampton and Buckinghamshire universities are taking up the baton for the ethical fashion movement. From classroom to catwalk: how students are backing ethical fashion 2013-07-12T09:22:28Z "When they realise the kids are now slaves in sweatshops, they want them back," he said. Vietnam's lost slave labour children 2013-08-24T23:38:22Z And because shipping is not a retail industry, the powerful international consumer pressure brought to bear on fashion brands that manufacture their products in Bangladeshi sweatshops is absent here. After Rana Plaza, Bangladesh's Shipyard Workers in Danger of Being Forgotten 2013-07-10T07:05:26Z And while this new fund is unprecedented in size and hoopla, it does nothing to support Japanese artists domestically, many of whom labor in sweatshop conditions with unsustainable pay. Japan Spends Millions in Order to Be Cool 2013-07-01T06:35:27Z There's also the problem of tragic accidents in foreign sweatshops, such as the recent Bangladeshi factory building collapse that killed more than 1,000 people, many of them sewing garments for Western retailers. A new consuming philosophy takes hold 2013-06-29T15:00:00Z Two decades since the first sweatshop scandals broke, students across the country are getting involved in a movement for a more ethical fashion industry. From classroom to catwalk: how students are backing ethical fashion 2013-07-12T09:22:28Z I’m sure we are only seeing part of the story as to what goes on in these sweatshops. Australian retailers face new Bangladesh sweatshop claims 2013-06-24T09:12:15Z The fire galvanized the labor movement in New York City and led to sweeping legislation to improve workplace safety, limit the workweek and curb the worst abuses of the sweatshops. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2013-06-22T03:30:00Z The Rana Plaza building in Savar outside Dhaka, where more than 1,000 sweatshop workers died when the building collapsed on 24 April. Forced labour after Rana Plaza: lessons learned and new imperatives 2013-05-30T10:04:00Z The system has kept Cambodia’s export factories free of child labor and nearly free of so-called sweatshop conditions. A Tale of Two Factory Disasters: What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh 2013-05-21T07:35:29Z After being linked to a number of sourcing scandals, including so-called sweatshop production, Gap became something of an ethical trailblazer. Ethical shopping: how the high street fashion stores rate 2013-05-17T19:25:27Z Australian retailers who recently signed an agreement to improve worker conditions in Bangladesh are facing new claims that sweatshop workers in the country have suffered physical and verbal abuse. Australian retailers face new Bangladesh sweatshop claims 2013-06-24T09:12:15Z Not surprisingly, in the context of prevailing macroeconomic conditions and pent-up demand for low-cost production, the prospect of black market sweatshops becomes all too real. Letters: How 'fair trade' could tackle sweatshops 2013-05-16T20:00:07Z Paharia published a study this month, "Sweatshop Labor is Wrong Unless the Shoes are Cute," which found that consumers are more likely to justify sweatshop labor for items they really want. Sears won't sign Bangladesh safety accord 2013-05-16T04:21:00Z A room in the back of a church, with two or three people working on mismatched furniture, it reminded her of a sweatshop or a numbers runner’s den. Cleveland: Ground zero for the housing bubble 2013-05-12T21:00:00Z Nike, which faced a global boycott over sweatshop conditions in its overseas factories, was among the first major apparel companies pressured to disclose the factories it uses. Fair-Trade Movement Extends to Clothing 2013-05-08T16:56:21Z It's a rigged industry, in which precious few brands don't use sweatshops. Business After Bangladesh: How a Disaster Could Redefine U.S. Outsourcing 2013-05-03T17:35:22Z Los Santos is Los Angeles writ even larger, a town of ruthless crooks and conmen; more a dream sweatshop than a dream factory. GTA 5 preview – to live and die in Los Santos 2013-05-02T15:18:00Z Put another way, with a specific example: We see a $14 shirt, and conclude based on its price that it must be a low-quality garment made in a sweatshop somewhere by overworked, underpaid workers. JCPenney Brings Back Fake Prices 2013-05-02T11:00:00Z Perhaps the most insidious aspect of the sweatshop debate, however, is in the way commentators blithely offer up a description of the status quo as a defense of it. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics 2013-04-29T16:52:24Z But “if the shoes are cute — if they like the shoes — they actually think sweatshop labor is less wrong,” she said. Fair-Trade Movement Extends to Clothing 2013-05-08T16:56:21Z The garment industry is one of the few industries in which almost every brand uses outsourcing which may have "proper precautions" but are still sweatshops as the average citizen would define them. Business After Bangladesh: How a Disaster Could Redefine U.S. Outsourcing 2013-05-03T17:35:22Z In other words – like the garment sweatshops of a century ago — what makes McDonald’s or Wal-Mart jobs bad isn’t that employees lack degrees. Fast food walkout planned in Chicago 2013-04-24T01:45:00Z From sweatshop workers to senior executives, women take home less pay than men. What Holds Women Back from the TIME 100? 2013-04-18T12:25:53Z The argument, voiced by outlets as diverse as Slate and the Spectator, is that the economic benefits of the sweatshop economy override concerns about the rights of factory workers. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics 2013-04-29T16:52:24Z Fashionistas often have a love/hate relationship with retailers like H&M because they equate the inexpensive price tags to the company’s ability to manufacture its merchandise in sweatshops filled with underpaid workers. Inside H&M's Quest For Sustainability in Fast Fashion 2013-04-09T19:20:32Z But Apple removed Sweatshop from sale last month stating that it was uncomfortable selling a game based on the theme of running a sweatshop. A serious game about sweatshops … you won't find it in Apple's App Store 2013-03-22T13:11:21Z Other girls, perhaps as many as seven or eight million school-age girls, will become domestic laborers, be sent to sweatshop factories or languish in the fields and farms. Malala Returns To School 2013-03-19T18:08:00Z In 2011, after a long economic boom, he took aim at Buenos Aires' city government over the persistent exploitation of illegal immigrants in clandestine sweatshops. Argentina's pope stood up to power, but has his critics 2013-03-14T20:40:29Z Shutting down sweatshops completely would only erase those gains. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics 2013-04-29T16:52:24Z Start with the sweatshops on the Lower East Side. Congress Looks Past Sequester Deadline, Braces for Long Fight 2013-02-27T13:05:25Z Whereas a film documentary might piece together the sweatshop story through footage and anecdote, the game allows players to experience the system from the inside with all its cat's cradle of pressures and temptations. A serious game about sweatshops … you won't find it in Apple's App Store 2013-03-22T13:11:21Z On another note, if she gets the job, she’ll be overseeing some places with a history of sweatshops that could compete with REI. In the Loop: Interior pick could watch, but not deliver, a State of the Union address 2013-02-07T04:24:01Z That’s where they get sometimes get into trouble—Apple, for instance, is now associated with sweatshop labor even though most tech companies use contract manufacturers that have the same or worse working conditions. Are Apple, Whole Foods and Google Democrats or Republicans? Maybe We Knew Once But Not Anymore 2013-01-26T21:42:34Z Anti-sweatshop activists often fold their critique of sweatshops into a broader critique of globalization. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics 2013-04-29T16:52:24Z Some brands have even used the idea of the body as a factory – or in Nike's case a "sweatshop"– in their marketing activity. Your body isn't a temple, it's a data factory emitting digital exhaust 2013-01-25T16:15:01Z Sweatshop was released for free on the internet in 2011 generating widespread discussion both of the game and of the sweatshop problem in general. A serious game about sweatshops … you won't find it in Apple's App Store 2013-03-22T13:11:21Z Just this month, an advocacy network, the Global March Against Child Labor, led a surprise raid of a sweatshop in New Delhi. India Ink: Christmas Ornaments, Child Labor 2012-12-26T05:25:38Z Ms. Liu said, “It’s a big sweatshop built on an enormous chain of profits.” Changing of the Guard: Chinese Opposition to Labor Camps Widens 2012-12-15T02:57:49Z They also mean bad press and falling share prices, which is why western firms generally provide themselves with plausible deniability of links to these sweatshops when disaster strikes. The Bangladesh factory tragedy and the moralists of sweatshop economics 2013-04-29T16:52:24Z It sees you running a "madcap clothing factory", but whether it turns into a sweatshop is down to your choices, treating your workers mean or being keen to keep them happy. 30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2012-12-07T20:23:55Z She was one of the youngest employees in the factory, where she witnessed the labor discontent that sometimes rocked South Korea as its economy galloped ahead but many workers toiled in sweatshop conditions. The Saturday Profile: Shin Kyung-sook Mines South Korea’s Sense of Loss 2012-09-08T00:12:24Z And how about Walmart, Best Buy, Dell, Toys “R” Us, Nike, American Apparel, and a hundred other corporations that depend on Chinese sweatshop labor for their profits? Obama vs. Romney: Is This Beijing's Dirtiest Trick? 2012-08-29T10:17:13Z For the brothers’ parents — Cao Erxing and his wife, Chen Zengrong, both 56 — the return to China was a capstone to lives of toil in New York City sweatshops and restaurant kitchens. In China, Sons Fight Railways Ministry Over Crash 2012-08-29T00:40:53Z But I don't want people working in sweatshops at 5p an hour. Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right 2012-08-22T17:01:51Z And removing the “sweatshop” stigma might help its global reputation. Apple in China: iPhones make Chinese eyes light up 2012-07-26T15:11:14Z LearnLiberty has assembled some brief instructional videos by the philosopher Matt Zwolinski and the economist Benjamin Powell explaining the causes and consequences of “sweatshops.” Worried about Trade, Overpopulation, Walmart, and Terrorism? You Shouldn't Be 2012-07-26T13:00:22Z In 2011, it was accused of using Brazilian employees in sweatshop conditions but the accusation did little to dent Zara's reputation as top fashion brand. Store Wars: Zara and Mango 2012-07-06T07:45:01Z It follows an independent report which described conditions at Louisiana food processing plant as "rivalling any sweatshop in China or Bangladesh". Walmart suspends seafood supplier over working 'violations' 2012-06-30T19:39:27Z The story of Pagan Island involves the chemistry of Greece’s Pantheon, Jack Abramoff, sweatshops, and a bat so big it’s called a flying fox. Japan Tsunami Debris on Pagan Island: Financial Problems May Lead to a Second Environmental Mess 2012-06-13T17:15:02.730Z She had a point – but there is also a very British tradition of grim exploitation, embodied by such inventions as the workhouse and the sweatshop. Back to the workhouse 2012-06-08T20:00:05Z Obviously, if the player is a gold-farmer in a sweatshop in China who actively hates playing the game, this is a highly subjective calculation. Diablo III's Reported Hacking: A Crime, Or Just A Shame? 2012-05-22T16:25:00Z In the 2009 comptroller’s race, Mr. Liu recounted how as a boy he worked alongside his mother in a garment district sweatshop. City Room: On the Campaign Trail, Reciting Family History 2012-04-16T13:10:48Z The old stereotypes about low-wage sweatshops are as out-of-date as Mao suits. Manufacturing: The end of cheap China 2012-03-08T16:00:34Z The American sweatshop opposition movement was born the day we discovered how our Nikes were stitched together. Economic Scene: Dividends Emerge in Pressing Apple Over Working Conditions in China 2012-03-07T02:29:47Z In the 1990s, Nike’s sweatshops weren’t the worst in the business, but they’re the ones that got the negative publicity. Pogue's Posts: What Cameras Inside Foxconn Found 2012-02-23T22:17:54Z I think I can see the end of this trouble, however, when the Italian's triumph in the sweatshop shall have proved but a barren victory, to his own gain. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z One of the most well-regarded agencies is the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide. Make Sure You're Not Running a Sweatshop 2012-01-25T16:54:00Z Its hiring of ambulances at its Pennsylvania warehouse to wait for workers to keel over in the summer heat conjured up a Dickensian sweatshop. Bits Blog: For Amazon, Lashes and Backlashes 2011-12-15T14:23:31Z Some illegal immigrants find themselves forced to work in sweatshops, in private homes as domestic servants or on farms without pay under the threat of deportation. APNewsBreak: Google puts $11.5 million toward US coalitions devoted to fighting slavery 2011-12-14T08:07:47Z China’s preference for sweatshops to supply the Arkansas- based behemoth impedes the creation of a vibrant domestic market. Wal-Mart Battles Marx's Ghost in India 2011-12-08T00:33:36Z For strikes in sweatshops are often enough the alternative of starvation. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z China’s preference for sweatshops to supply the Arkansas-based behemoth impedes the creation of a vibrant domestic market. Wal-Mart Battles With Karl Marx’s Ghost in India: William Pesek 2011-12-06T20:22:02Z That impacts the company’s IPO prospects and long-term ability to hire, based on its sweatshop — and a nasty one at that — reputation. Is It Already Over For Zynga? 2011-11-28T20:05:23Z A man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self-improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z A group that pressures colleges not to sell apparel made with sweatshop labor had similar experiences. Penn State?s Spanier Enjoyed Success and Secrecy 2011-11-22T03:01:15Z He lives cheaply, crowds, and underbids even the Jew in the sweatshop. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z The concept, named after the late economist and 1979 Nobel laureate W. Arthur Lewis, is associated with rapid losses of competitiveness for sweatshop industries in South Korea and Taiwan in the 1980s. China Shock of 5% Growth Seen Deferred by Migrant Manufacturers 2011-11-13T19:50:13Z In the meantime, the same powers that have engineered the apparently causeless strengthening and weakening of the cotton market, have seized upon stricken Germany to be the sweatshop of the world. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z But in the 1990s, protesters began to complain against sweatshop conditions at some of its overseas suppliers and made Nike the global poster child for corporate ethical fecklessness. The Dark Side of Apple (Part 12) 2011-10-04T14:43:20Z It is a disturbing scene, sort of like a sweatshop for children's brains. Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone: A Look at South Korea's Education System 2011-09-25T05:25:00Z The law has driven the sweatshops out of the tenements, and so deprived them of one of their chief props: there was no rent at all to pay there. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Just skimming the surface, we found the Cowboys produced merchandise at four factories that have egregious sweatshop violations.” Students Object to Use of Sweatshop Labor on College Clothing 2011-09-24T00:43:44Z It is probably this way that the Jewish "sweatshops" of New York may be explained. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z She decided to go undercover to share the experiences of sweatshop workers. Webb, Churchill and the Birth of the Welfare State: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-08T00:22:04Z But a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch says that labor therapy is nothing more than sweatshop servitude in the guise of a social program. Vietnam Using Addicts as Forced Labor, Human Rights Watch Says 2011-09-07T23:44:08Z The new law, which greatly extends the factory inspector's power over sweatshops, is an expression of this enlightened sentiment. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z It was working closely with the ministry of labour to eradicate sweatshop conditions. Zara accused in Brazil 'slave labour' inquiry 2011-08-18T16:40:43Z A similar ethical dilemma emerged for the sweatshops that several major clothing companies were using. Are Foxconn robots the answer to worker suicides? 2011-08-02T17:52:33Z More and more cities are waking up to the need to be more than sweatshops on a citywide scale. I.H.T. Special Report: Smart Cities 2011-07-28T19:57:20Z Up out of the south, from lower Broadway and the sweatshop purlieus of Union Square, defiled an unending procession of surface cars, without exception dark with massed humanity. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Mr. Tyler’s mother, Dora, started working in Lower East Side sweatshops at 10. Gus Tyler, Firebrand of Labor Movement, Dies at 99 2011-06-12T01:22:00Z The investigation began after unions reported last June that sweatshops in Sao Paulo were producing garments for Zara. Zara accused in Brazil 'slave labour' inquiry 2011-08-18T16:40:43Z They may be in front of a computer, but they’re still in sweatshop conditions. Chinese Prison Guards Forced Inmates Into Virtual Work Gangs 2011-05-26T19:47:05Z “Most people were well aware of the abuses of the sweatshop,” Dr. Nordstrom added. City Room: Triangle Fire: A Frontier in Photojournalism 2011-03-23T20:21:50Z "The Simpsons" has managed to continually make headlines this season, from its Fox News jokes to its sweatshop "couch gag" by British street artist Banksy. ANIMATION OF THE WEEKEND: The "Simpsons"/FOX News brouhaha 2010-12-06T02:00:50Z The initiative is modeled on previous voluntary efforts aimed at eradicating sweatshops in the apparel industry and stopping corruption in the oil, natural gas and mining industries. Sites Like Twitter Absent From Free Speech Pact 2011-03-07T02:08:18Z But workers like He are becoming more choosy about the kind of jobs they want, eschewing the long hours, tedious work and poor benefits offered in China's many sweatshops. Special Report: As China grows, contest intensifies for labor 2011-02-24T15:41:51Z This is the site where, four months before the Triangle fire, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 1910, another sweatshop burst into flames, killing more than two dozen women and girls. Our Towns: In Newark, Wresting a Fatal Factory Fire From Oblivion 2011-02-24T01:50:10Z Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs on June 2 denied Foxconn was a sweatshop, saying his company was “all over” the supplier to deal with the deaths. Apple Says Foxconn’s Actions on Suicides Saved Further Lives 2011-02-15T03:39:23Z We read much of the infernos of the slums of the great cities, of degradation and misery and squalor, of the grinding callousness of tenement landlords and sweatshop operators. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The guide encourages companies to protect employees, local communities and the environment, and to end corporate abuses, especially in low-cost sweatshops, the oil industry and in extractive industries. A better world? 2011-01-25T00:01:19Z The workers were sewing at seven different small factories—they called them sweatshops—that had all been contracted to produce garments for Forever 21. Forever 21's Fast (and Loose) Fashion Empire 2011-01-20T22:00:00Z As northern neighbor and former imperial ruler China begins the transition from sweatshop economy to consumer society, Vietnam hopes to follow. Special Report: Vietnam's capitalist roaders follow China trail 2011-01-13T04:44:34Z It is because men have been thought of as things, that there are such plague-spots on the social body as sweatshops. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z The report – Taking Liberties: the Story Behind the UK High Street – lays bare the human cost of the sweatshop culture. Britain's high street chains are named by sweatshop probe 2010-12-12T00:08:00Z But in all their cubic zirconian splendor, these royal wedding replicas tell an important story about how China is haltingly moving away from a sweatshop past towards a more upmarket future. Export hub's upmarket moves part of Chinese effort to escape sweatshop image 2010-12-10T19:58:00Z When multinationals bow to pressure from campaigners against “sweatshops” and sever links with suppliers in poor countries, the workers who previously stitched shoes for export may end up scavenging from rubbish heaps. Schumpeter: Companies aren?t charities 2010-10-21T11:18:00Z As demonstrated by Banksy's recent Simpson's couch gag, the imagery of an Asian sweatshop is anything but shocking. Do we still care about sweatshops? 2010-10-14T14:08:00Z Robert B. Reich, the former labor secretary, once publicly denounced the DeCoster Egg Farms in Maine as an “agricultural sweatshop” where the workers were treated like “animals.” Salmonella Linked to Egg Farms and Chicken Feed 2010-08-27T00:42:00Z The whole image of American Apparel was supposed to be: 'Aren't we good, making everything in the US and not using sweatshop labour?' The rise and fall of American Apparel 2010-08-25T20:00:00Z The nation's labor secretary at the time, Robert Reich, said conditions were "as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop." FDA looking for source of tainted eggs 2010-08-23T13:50:00Z Then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said conditions were "as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop." A Supplier in Egg Recall has History of Violations 2010-08-22T08:35:00Z Is there really no sweatshop in the Far East where the thing could be made more cheaply? Does the coalition really need this foul-mouthed tycoon? 2010-08-21T23:05:00Z The labor secretary in the Clinton administration, Robert B. Reich, called Mr. DeCoster’s operation “an agricultural sweatshop.” Egg Producer Expands Recall After Links to Salmonella 2010-08-19T00:49:00Z Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain Some of the biggest names on the British high street are at the centre of a major sweatshop scandal. Gap, Next and M&S in new sweatshop scandal 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Speed Read for Monday, July 19 Journalistic sweatshops, policing the Internet and keeping Dreamworks independent in today's media coverage. Fallout From the iPhone 4 Press Conference 2010-07-19T19:31:00Z But they said the notion of Politico as a journalistic sweatshop is pure myth. In Online Journalism, Burnout Starts Younger 2010-07-19T02:59:00Z The factory is a high-minded experiment, a response to appeals from myriad university officials and student activists that the garment industry stop using poverty-wage sweatshops. An Apparel Factory Defies Stereotypes, but Can It Thrive? 2010-07-17T17:38:00Z I doubt that even the most depressed regions of America would want to be home to factories that pollute the environment, pay minimum wage, and work at the profit margins of these sweatshops. Why Andy Grove Is Wrong About Job Growth 2010-07-10T01:46:00Z But we are witnessing nothing less than the beginning of the end of China's role as the sweatshop of the world. What China's Labor Unrest Means 2010-06-19T05:20:00Z A sweatshop formula for success may be nearing the end of its life span, as China actively seeks to move its economic structure up the technology/skill ladder. What Do China's Workers Want? 2010-06-13T23:00:00Z Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week expressed concern over the deaths but said the plants were not sweatshops. iPhone maker Foxconn seeks price hikes to offset wages 2010-06-08T07:06:00Z Apple CEO Steve Jobs called recent suicides at the plant troubling but said last week the site was not a sweatshop. Foxconn to up wages again at suicide-hit China plant 2010-06-06T15:59:00Z Mr. Jobs said he was concerned about the rash of suicides as Foxconn, but said the factory was not a “sweatshop” and noted that Apple is “over there trying to understand what is happening.” Steve Jobs Muses on All Things Apple 2010-06-02T05:44:00Z The youngsters listened in awe as older colleagues described life in sweatshops, enduring fumes, high temperatures and blinding lights for weeks without rest, all to save a little cash to send home. What China's Labor Unrest Means 2010-06-19T05:20:00Z "I believe we are definitely not a sweatshop," Gou told the Wall Street Journal. Foxconn's Woes 2010-05-28T17:00:00Z Li Qiang, executive director of New York-based China Labor Watch, last week accused Foxconn of being a sweatshop that "tramples" workers' personal values for the sake of efficiency. Taiwan technology manufacturer under investigation after multiple worker suicides 2010-05-27T04:00:00Z The workplace wasn't a sweatshop, Liu wrote, but the assembly line work slowly dehumanized the employees. A Chinese Factory Under Scrutiny As Worker Suicides Mount 2010-05-26T03:15:00Z In it, Stranahan called effects shops "the most fun and high-tech sweatshops on earth." Hollywood's VFX Sweatshops: Boom Times, Troubled Business 2010-05-25T18:35:00Z While many other retailers source their supplies in Asia, where workers are often paid poverty wages, Charney makes his garments "sweatshop free" in downtown Los Angeles. American Apparel reports $18m first quarter loss 2010-05-23T14:54:00Z The Guardian understands that the allegation was backed by a small number of witnesses, from sweatshop owners and child workers but such witnesses were apparently found to be not sufficiently reliable. Complaints unit is undermining us, BBC journalists say 2010-04-02T21:23:00Z "A sweatshop," says one low-level manager who recently departed. Hewlett-Packard's Mark Hud: He Wants It All 2010-03-25T23:20:00Z But Mr. Sherman couldn’t get too deep into feelings because he was the one who suggested on Twitter: “Gushing Politico staff memo combats sweatshop image — possible pushback to upcoming Leibovich piece in NYT Mag.” The Media Equation: Breaking the Story That Isn?t 2010-03-08T05:30:00Z And the building’s fire escapes — probably installed, Mr. Allen said, after the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, the infamous 1911 sweatshop inferno — had damaged the cast iron. Solving a Mystery Covered by 137 Years of Paint 2010-02-24T23:43:00Z Union organizers say factory pay, which hovers around $4 a day, amounts to sweatshop wages, but Sassine said that is three to four times what most Haitians earn. 2010-02-15T05:00:00Z Along with her work in sweatshops, which she had to do to earn her living, she found time to familiarize herself with the latest libertarian literature and to spend hours on end in intellectual discussion. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch After a disheartening period of working in the sweatshop he saw an opportunity to start in business for himself. The Book of Courage Go to the department stores and the sweatshops and help the underpaid, friendless girl there if you must work. Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls No longer will its use be merely to serve and promote private enterprise in foul tenements, in sweatshops, and in all the products that are necessary to life and to death. Violence and the Labor Movement That the exploitation of labor, the sale of sweatshop and adulterated goods, and many other forms of oppression or fraud were a consecutive and integral part of his business methods is undeniable. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times |
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