If you recall, in June Apple was under fire about allegations that their manufacturing facilities in China are working under sweatshop-like conditions. They launched a full-blown investigation into ...
Two women who survived sweatshop factory conditions overseas visited Squires Wednesday afternoon to advocate for higher international standards. Reba Sikder, an apparel worker who survived the Rana ...
For eight Virginia Tech students, a typical semester abroad has become something much bigger than they ever expected. They discovered Alta Gracia, a clothing factory that is revolutionary because it ...
A review of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...
The United Nations has found a new villain in the global war on poverty: the very jobs that have lifted hundreds of millions ...
The Foxconn factory is unusual because the Shenzhen, China facility has reported 10 worker suicides, and three additional suicides at other Foxconn facilities. At the All Things Digital D8 conference ...
Despite some laudatory local and state efforts, taxpayer dollars are still being used to purchase clothes made in sweatshops. Factory workers sew garments at a factory in Caracol, Haiti.
NEW YORK — Tragic as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was, the most definitive moment of Thursday’s all-day symposium honoring its centennial was an impromptu exercise that reminded guests just ...
The difference between heaven and earth : introducing Alta Gracia -- From factory favorite to fighter : human cost of the "Race to the Bottom" -- Risky proposition, unlikely alliance : founding a new ...