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About a dozen members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) demonstrated outside an alumni event in Winthrop House on Friday, protesting the University's reliance on a private consulting firm to monitor labor conditions at factories that produce college-licensed apparel...
Last year, protests over labor conditions in factories making college apparel swept campuses across the country, including Harvard...
...report caps a year of investigation into the labor conditions of factories that produce college-licensed apparel and analysis of the factory monitoring process itself...
After one such protest, Harvard declared it would not do business with apparel manufactures that do not abide by a code of conduct that requires employers to pay a living wage and disclose factory names and locations...
Together, factories in the seven countries, including China, El Salvador, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Thailand and the United States, are responsible for the production of much the nation's college apparel...