In 2012, the Tarzeen Fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers. It's been slightly forgotten in the aftermath of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse that killed over 1100, but was certainly horrible in its own right--remember, Triangle killed 146 so Tarzeen was nearly as deadly. Of...
apparel industry
Sweatshop factories in California are making a non-zero amount of your clothes: Workers in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of.
This little piece on the United Students Against Sweatshops chapter at the University of Washington reminded of the importance of these student groups in fostering young activists against the systems.
I suppose it's too much to ask major newspapers to write stories about corporations that are more than fawning portrayals of brilliant CEOs. But this Washington Post piece on departing Gap CEO Glenn Murphy is gross. Jena McGregor, who writes a column on "leadership," a...
No industry has engaged in such a lengthy period of consistent exploitation as apparel, which has basically ran sweatshops around the world for 200 years, moving whenever workers successfully win.
REI (PDF) which works through North Face, another company who has their clothing made in factories where workers die.
As we talked about here earlier, the idea that the kids just aren't doing their activism right because I'm too lazy to find out what the kids are doing today is a stupid critique of modern activism, in part because students are doing awesome things....
The European companies seeking to improve factory conditions in Bangladesh are facing resistance from the factory owners who are heavily invested in the current system, politically powerful, and don't care.
Colin Long's Jacobin essay on visiting the Tarzeen and Rana Plaza factory disaster sites is all worth reading, but the important part of the article is his discussion of the.
If it wants to, American governments can play an enormous role in improving labor conditions overseas. The federal government could do all sorts of things to regulate the conditions of what comes into this country. At the very least, it could demand the products it...
In the late 1990s, United Students Against Sweatshops did some really great work around fighting the exploitative system of the apparel industry by placing pressure on colleges and universities to.
Chinese workers making shoes for American manufacturers are on strike: More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been striking for several days.