Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent administration decision to form a sweatshop labor oversight committee, probably monitored by accounting firm Price-Waterhouse-Coopers, is a good sign. In response to student protests over possible sweatshop activities involving companies manufacturing Harvard apparel, the administration has shown its willingness to probe deeper to correct this egregious abuse of human labor...
...instance, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. Signed the petition at the March 9 "Rally for Justice" organized by the campaign, the Progressive Student Labor Movement and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence...
...committee, which has met twice thissemester, is chaired by D. Quinn Mills,Weatherhead professor of business administration,and includes professors of economics, health carepolicy and law, in addition to administrators suchas Sally H. Zeckhauser, vice president foradministration, and Kim A. Roberts '70, directorof labor and employee relations...
...found their examination a rather labor-intensive effort for a committee that is not authorized to act as a deliberative body and which is obliged to pass on grievances to the next stage unless they are 'clearly without merit,'" Berkowitz added...
...there are some musical categories which tend to be associated with a constructed definition; artists, journalists and others who are so inclined often invoke an ideology, a generalized message or an essentialized doctrine. Folk music, which may be said to have stemmed from labor and anti-war movements, is an example of such a phenomenon, as is a transatlantic punk movement of the late '70s--bands such as the Clash, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television and the Sex Pistols. Both of these groupings arose organically through an interaction between music makers and music listeners; yet both also have lost...