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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweatshop labor to produce university-logo apparel has in recent months inspired a burst of student activism across the country...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Ivy Officials Search for Response to Sweatshop Protests | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard, the Progressive Student Labor Movement has led a similar charge--marching last week to President Neil L. Rudenstine's office in an attempt to present him with a check for $.08, the amount a Dominican worker receives for each "Veritas" hat manufactured...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Ivy Officials Search for Response to Sweatshop Protests | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...switch-networking project is two to three years away from completion, Osterberg added, because the procedure is labor-intensive and costly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intruder Breaks Into Sever Hall Network | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...systems-manufacturing firms provide large chunks of car across the entire range of established auto companies and are taking on their own global role alongside the global auto assemblers. The advantages for the major carmakers include faster delivery times, more flexibility and more manageable inventories, as well as redefined labor arrangements. Another effect, as Magna's case illustrates, is a blurring of the distinction between parts supplier and automaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...fair, the people behind the anti-sweatshop movement at Harvard have given no real indication that they will follow the lead of their colleagues at other campuses. Hopefully, they won't; ending the University's involvement with sweatshop labor is a noble goal, but not one that justifies violent recourses like taking over buildings. Seizing University Hall would be as unwise a tactic...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: When Push Comes to Shove | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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