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...controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong Kong. Private detectives rooted through the trash of the Limited suppliers to develop the case, which the retailer vigorously contests, pointing out that the U.S. government has so far declined to join the action. The Limited faces millions in damages...
...blind eye toward Beijing. Even George Weise, who heads U.S. Customs, the agency charged with preventing the import of prison-made goods, admits lamely that "we simply do not have the tools" to carry out that mission. Weise admits the agency is similarly tool-less in spotting mislabeled apparel imports, which amount to at least $2 billion annually...
...grew up thinking that Harvard was college, having barely heard about any other schools," says Elizabeth A. Lowenhaupt '97, who says her parents dressed her in Harvard apparel since she was a young child. Both were undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges...
...Mexico the company's stitchers earn $20 to $40 a week, compared with about $5 an hour for their Los Angeles counterparts, who are overwhelmingly Latino immigrants. The difference shaves up to $2 off the cost of each pair of jeans and explains, in part, why U.S. apparel jobs have dropped 43% since...
Working conditions in Guess's U.S. sewing shops may be no worse than in many other apparel factories in Los Angeles, although that's nothing to brag about. But the company has become a poster boy for a renewed antisweatshop movement. Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...