Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Organizers planned the event to coincide with a national day of action to celebrate the creation of the Workers Rights Consortium, an independent labor monitoring group...
Rain forced the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) to postpone an anti-sweatshop fashion show scheduled for yesterday afternoon on the steps of Widener Library...
PSLM has been pressuring the University to join such a group to monitor its own overseas apparel factories. Harvard currently relies on the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and PricewaterhouseCoopers, organizations PSLM say are tainted because they are associated with the corporations they are supposed to monitor...
...seems that almost everyone won something from the meeting between Teamster president JAMES P. HOFFA and President BILL CLINTON last Thursday in New York City. Clinton secured Hoffa's backing for HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON's bid for a Senate seat. Hoffa was publicly accepted as a national labor leader--or at least one with whom you could be seen in public. In fact, it was Clinton, not labor, who pushed hard for the invitation. If there was any loser, it was AL GORE. Hoffa remained firmly in the camp of those who want the AFL-CIO to withhold its early...
...Kodak Brownie, the memory toy that let everyone commemorate the everyday, to the computer manipulations that turn pictures into smooth lies. This is history that gives more time to mass-market phenomena and socially concerned work than anything formalist, unengaged or inward. So LIFE magazine, tabloids and the child-labor photos of Lewis Hine are all nicely served. Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston rate less than a shutter click of mention. That's not the whole picture...