Word: conducters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department of Labor. The conference--called No Sweat University--brought together students, university presidents, licensing directors and apparel manufacturers. Several panels featuring representatives of the above groups discussed how universities could ensure that retail garments featuring school logos are not made in sweatshops--by adopting licensing codes of conduct...
These codes of conduct, such as the one proposed last semester by students here at Harvard, are policies that set standards for working conditions in the factories that make university-licensed apparel and provide mechanisms for enforcing those standards, such as independent monitoring of the factories...
...billion-a-year industry, and universities have a responsibility to avoid either associating their school names with industry human rights abuses or indirectly profiting from those abuses. Numerous universities such as Harvard have recognized this responsibility and have begun to work towards eliminating collegiate apparel sweatshops through codes of conduct...
However, schools have generally been hesitant to commit to the principles advocated by students and labor-and human-rights experts as necessary for a strong code of conduct. We want a code that will be more than a piece of paper and that will really help improve conditions for sweatshop workers...
...opening reception stressed the togetherness of this university anti-sweatshop movement, but they made no mention of the students who were responsible for starting the campaign and raising awareness about it, nor of the significant concerns of students regarding the lack of important provisions in current codes of conduct. We students were troubled by this self-congratulatory tenor, and we did not consider togetherness to be an accurate description of the situation given our concerns, concerns which we felt were not being addressed...