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A short list of the things you can do right now about sweatshops. This list was developed in the course of writing the Book, Blood, Sweat and Tears, by Farzin Mojtabai, about the impact of politics, G...
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Published: Jun 20, 2007
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Economists and the business world rave about the profit potentials of globalization, activists and scholars rage over hidden agendas. Professor and author Charles Derber assembles a visionary argument...
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Published: Sep 24, 2006
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One of the most frustrating aspects of understanding sweatshops is how they came to exist in globalization.This brought scholar Ellen Israel Rosen to what may be the most accessible, but also thorough...
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Published: Aug 28, 2006
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Norberg is up against an obstinate choir of anti-corporate globalization critics. His argument is straightforward and convincing forming a statistically armed shield that proclaims, if not capitalism,...
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Published: Aug 07, 2006
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Soccer, or the more appropriate Global term, Football, is often kicked around in the Globalization debate. The World Cup is a time of exuberant fandom, but also a time when Human Rights advocates have...
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Published: Jul 11, 2006
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Corporations bent on world domination, the Merry Pranksters that inflitrate their federation, brave heros that join the sweatshop slaves and factory girls gone wild at Mardi Gras? Sounds like a good m...
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Published: Jul 06, 2006
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On June 8th, 2006 North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) put forth a bill to amend the 1930 U.S. Tariff Act to include goods made in Sweatshops. This comes as thousands of workers in Jordan's Free T...
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Published: Jul 05, 2006
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Low Pay, High Profile is a sweeping view of the new and historic labor struggles In an alarming look at labor's value across the board of our livelihoods, Ross brings a unique style of solidarity to w...
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Published: Jun 16, 2006
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When companies like Gap, Inc. take initiative in creating a transparent supply chain, they invest the apparel industry's future in social responsibility.
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Published: Jun 02, 2006
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Is Nike Inc. an economic savior lifting Global labor standards or a cause in sweatshop labor motivated by profits? The debate over Nike's Sweatshop factories has painted the company's reputation many ...
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Published: May 02, 2006
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Summer is the time to stay cool and look good, but you can make a difference with the clothes you buy. Here is a shopping guide with some tips on the stores you can trust to be free of Sweatshop labor...
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Published: Apr 11, 2006
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Few movements have impacted mass social change since student protestors during the Vietnam War, but Liza Featherstone's book Students Against Sweatshops captures something close.
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Published: Mar 24, 2006
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Activists and labor groups continue to campaign a doctrine of unionization against corporate globalization with anti-sweatshop success in different approaches. Where the movement first connected in so...
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Published: Mar 22, 2006
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A horrific rash of events for garment workers in Bangladesh, as factory collapse, explosion and fires kill 86, over 250 injured. The recent tragedies incite International pressure as the Garment Distr...
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Published: Mar 21, 2006
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A cure-all solution for the ethical crises of Sweatshops in 93 pages? Fat chance, but Can We Put And End To Sweatshops? raises the bar, giving the debate direction. Joined by 8 swift, but intelligent ...
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Published: Mar 13, 2006
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Students & Scholars in Hong Kong nominated Disney for the 2006 Public Eye Award. The award, given by Swiss Organization The Bernie Declaration, brings attention to Corporate misconduct, publicly cont...
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Published: Mar 06, 2006