SWEATSHOPS

The troubles that sweatshops cause around the world.

"'Making Sweatshops' does for the textile industry what 'Fast Food Nation' did for the American diet - revealing the familiar in a totally new light." - Taipei Times

Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act Legislation was passed in 2006, to ban the import or export of sweatshop products in America. The National Labor Committee with the help of the United Steelworkers of America introduced senate bill 3485.

1820 - 1880 - The term sweatshop was originally used in the garment industry though any factory exhibiting the same conditions would be latter known as a sweatshop as well.

In today's society workers have rights and there is legislation to protect them. Back then, at the turn of the century, there were no rights. Women put up with these conditions or they quit.

The American unskilled laborer went from workhouse to sweatshop. Though the poor were no longer incarcerated in the prison-like workhouses and almshouses also known as the poorhouse, the conditions hardly improved at the turn of the century.

The American unskilled laborer went from workhouse to sweatshop. Though the poor were no longer incarcerated in the prison-like workhouses and almshouses also known as the poorhouse, the conditions hardly improved at the turn of the century.

The top five worst sweatshop offenders and the truth about American brand apparel. What you should know to start shopping with a conscience.

OSHA inspects yearly to ensure employee safety in every work place in America but that is the only time some of these places are looked at.

Imagine working in a place where the doors remain locked, fire escapes were in ill repair, and there were no sprinklers.

Rather than forcing American workers to compete with cheap third world workers to line the pockets of American executives, Germans develop and export high-end products that can't easily be duplicated in Asian sweatshops.

Sweatshops are notorious for breaking health and safety standards. Many people believe that sweatshops exist in other countries such as China and India. Most people don't realize that sweatshops are still current in America, Canada, and Montrea

Sweatshops are notorious for breaking health and safety standards. Many people believe that sweatshops exist in other countries such as China and India. Most people don't realize that sweatshops are still current in America, Canada, and Montreal.

They call us the modern day slaves. They call our home offices "writing sweatshops". It's time to start demanding more money from our clients, and to stop the exploitation.

If I am willing to support the exploitation of the poor in other countries while creating an unemployed underclass in this country, I must be willing to subject myself to the same criteria...

Companies who operated with sweatshops were not uncommon in 1911, and are probably more prominent today than we as American would like to believe. In that year, the Triangle Waist Company, then located in Washington Place in Manhattan, was one of those sweatshops.

But the worst is yet to come. Eric Clark also talks about places in China he calls 'Santa's Sweatshops.'

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