Arguing with the economic development theorists Ross outlines how rather than stepping-stones to development,
sweatshops are on a downward slide to the bottom.
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
A second theme is the equation of
sweatshops with the garment industry.
Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea
If the climate doesn't finish them, the
sweatshops do.
Pennies and a crust of bread: child labor in America: millions of kids did crushingly hard work in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Sweatshop labor is not quantitatively dominant either in the world economy or in the United States.
Are workers rights human rights and would it matter if they were?
Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl Wudunn in their New York Times article "Two Cheers for
Sweatshops" (September 24, 2000) assert that boycotting fails to improve working conditions and instead causes
sweatshops to close and workers to be fired altogether.
The case against sweatshops
Like many who toil inside
sweatshops, most of these jornaleros are in this country illegally, and, to them, getting deported is a bigger threat than not getting paid.
The go-between: Jose L. Oliva works to fill the spaces separating undocumented workers, government agencies and lawbreaking employers
These
sweatshops are a brutal face of globalization.
Global sweatshops & ethical buying codes
Several of the women interviewed were involved in legislative action against manufacturers such as Donna Karan New York (DKNY) and Jessica McClintock for the hazardous
sweatshop conditions in which their merchandise is produced.
Sweatshop factory warriors
Instead, 60 Minutes interviewed the white male
sweatshop boss, who had nothing but praise for the company.
Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory
If it's difficult to associate human labor with the Murakami gloss, it's easy enough to see a link between his industrious assistants and the
sweatshop workers who make the knockoff handbags for which Louis Vuitton is, after all, best known (Murakami's version has been available for months on New York streets).
Takashi Murakami: Marianne Boesky. (Reviews: New York)
He said they also recorded interviews with
sweatshop workers and young people involved with the Sandinista Youth Movement.
Video diaries on young people
The Gap buys GE cotton, pesticide cotton, and relies upon a notorious network of
sweatshop subcontractors.
Clothes for change
Second, the
sweatshop workers themselves had begun to organize.
A Student-Worker Alliance is Born. (Book Reviews)
In less than five years, labor rights, human rights, legal rights, community and religious organizations, later joined by university students based on their respective campuses, have formed coalitions to expose the excesses of globalization centered around the
sweatshop wherever they operate in the world.
Working for change: Activists take on the global sweatshop
Sugar Hill Capital Partners announced that
Sweatshop, a Brooklyn-based coffee house founded by Luke Woodard and Ryan De Remer, is occupying the firm's ground-level storefront at 336 Flatbush.
Sugar Hill welcomes Sweatshop