Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dressed in Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses and "No Sweat!--Union Made" hats, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) led about 40 students on an "anti-sweatshop tour" of the Square Friday afternoon...
...protestors targeted the Coop, the Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch--stores which PSLM said sells clothing produced under poor labor conditions...
...Coop was the first stop on the tour. Students gathered in front of the store's Mass. Ave. entrance as PSLM member Nitzhan Shoshan '00 condemned the labor practices under which the Coop's Harvard apparel is manufactured...
...said Saipan's status as an American territory allows companies to print "Made in the USA" on their clothing but conform to sub-par labor standards...
Workers allege that the companies charged recruitment fees for employment opportunities and encouraged women not to date or marry, to use birth control pills and to have an abortion if pregnant so as not to lose their labor services, Beach said...