Chabook Directory - Sweatshops

Topic: Society / Issues / Business / Human Rights / Sweatshops

Subtopics of "Sweatshops"
UNITE

Related topics:
Sweatshops (Employment and Income) Corporate Accountability (Business) Child Labor (Children, Youth and Family) Slavery (Labor)

**Subtopics of "Sweatshops"**
UNITE

**Related topics:**
Sweatshops (Employment and Income) Corporate Accountability (Business)	Child Labor (Children, Youth and Family) Slavery (Labor)

Web pages on "Sweatshops":

Anti-Sweatshop Labour League
The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
http://www.geocities.com/whydoyoukeepdeletingme/ASSLLeague.html

Battling Sweatshops
Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html

Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed.
U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.
http://www.progress.org/muse08.htm

Campaign for Labor Rights
A labor organization which specializes in the struggles of workers in sweatshops. Provides labor updates on Nike, Disney, Guess, Child Labor (including the Rugmark and FoulBall campaign), Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, United States (esp.
http://campaignforlaborrights.org/

Campaign for Labor Rights: Duke Sets New Licensing Policy
A release regarding Duke University's March 1998 code requiring licensees to disclose information about factory conditions and reserving the right of the university to monitor working conditions and labor practices.
http://www.campaignforlaborrights.org/alerts/1998/duke_new_license.html

Campaign for Real, Equitable Economic Development (CREED)
Anti-sweatshop group which sponsors the NY CISPES Traveling Sweatshop Theater, a dramatization of sweatshop conditions. Provides event calendar and information about immigration, neo-liberal economics, and labor activism.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/creed.html

Child Slave Labor News
Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
http://www.geocities.com/cslnews/

CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html

Clean Clothes Campaign
Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/

Fair Labor Association
Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
http://www.fairlabor.org/

Farmington Area Citizens to End Sweatshops
Student led group working to support human rights issues at the level of retail stores. University of Maine at Farmington.
http://www.geocities.com/faces04938/

Holiday Season of Conscience
National Labor Committee-sponsored project to inform holiday shoppers and socially responsible investors about sweatshop labor and other corporate abuses.
http://www.nlcnet.org/hsc/

Maquila Solidarity Network
Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campain against multi-national corporate abuse.
http://www.web.net/~msn/

Maquila Solidarity Network
Offers resources on sweatshop conditions, independent monitoring and workers' struggles to improve working conditions and win fair wages, plus a "Stop Sweatshop" campaign.
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
http://www.nmass.org/

No Sweat
Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/

Salon News on sweatshops
Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1999/02/04news.html

Stop Sweats
Nonprofit devoted to stopping Sweatshops Sections of site: (1) What is a Sweatshop? (2) What You Can Do?, (3) Teaching Resources, (4)Current Campaigns, (5) Students Against Sweatshops, and (6)Stop Sweatshop Links.
http://www.uniteunion.org/sweatshops/sweatshop.html

Sweat Shop accountability
U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
http://www.sweatshops-retail.org/

Sweatshop Reform
Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm

Sweatshop Journal
Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html

Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/

Sweatshops.org
Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights.
http://www.sweatshops.org/

Thai Labour Campaign
Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.
http://www.thailabour.org/index.html

United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/

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