Active defenders of sweatshops really get under my skin because they combine a celebration of labor exploitation with cherry picking historical examples in order to create a false narrative of.
I go into this a bit in Out of Sight, but Hester Eisenstein goes into much greater detail into how the global export industries have engaged in the widespread exploitation.
The use of sweatshop labor in the apparel industry is not just a U.S. thing and it doesn't just take place in Bangladesh. Rather, it's a worldwide phenomenon that needs.
I've been completely overwhelmed this week with end of the semester work. Good thing nothing has happened in the news the last couple of days that might require some historical.
The anti-sweatshop activism of the late 1990s and early 2000s has been on the upswing lately, partially in response to the outrages of the 1134 workers dying at the Rana.
On April 7, 2000, the Workers' Rights Consortium formed at a New York conference. This apparel industry monitoring organization developed in response to the anti-sweatshop movement of the 1990s and.
This is precisely the reason why we need to be able to hold American corporations legally accountable for the actions of the suppliers: Textile companies that make clothing for transnational.
Too much of the talk around women at work these days revolves around wealthy women like Sheryl Sandberg. As Janey Stephenson argues, if we want International Women's Day to mean.
