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...recommendation of a high-level administrator, Harvard has yet to take meaningful action towards ending these outrages. Harvard did, however, take action to quell the outcry against sweatshop labor in the late 1990s. Along with some of the companies best known for their unfair labor practices, including Nike, Reebok and Liz Claiborne, Harvard helped form the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a group that ostensibly monitors the working conditions in factories. Yet this corporate-dominated organization does nothing to ensure fair labor practices. It relies heavily on for-profit monitoring and has no requirement for the inclusion of workers or worker...

Author: By Jessica Marglin and Katie Monticchio, KATIE MONTICCHIO AND JESSICA MARGLINS | Title: Still Made in Sweatshops | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...fully disclosed. It is also the only monitoring organization endorsed by local unions and worker advocacy groups, those who actually have workers’ interests at heart. Already the WRC has made significant gains, for example at the Kukdong factory in Puebla, Mexico; the WRC there gained recognition from Nike for an independent worker-organized union, the first of its kind in a Mexican textile factory. The WRC worked with Nike to keep the factory open and to improve working conditions, contrary to fears that an organization such as the WRC would cause companies to shut down factories and pull...

Author: By Jessica Marglin and Katie Monticchio, KATIE MONTICCHIO AND JESSICA MARGLINS | Title: Still Made in Sweatshops | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

Shana Franklin, a 2001 Nike All-American from Wilmette, Ill, will also see immediate playing time this season. In spite of her success in high school, Franklin, like her teammates, seems enervated by the challenge of joining such a competitive Harvard squad...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top of their class: Recruits will make immediate impact | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...these fantastic freshmen is Chicago native Shana Franklin, a 2001 Nike All-American, can knock down the triple and has tremendous court presence...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women’s basketball poised to dominate ivies | 11/20/2002 | See Source »

...love Fido, spoiling it with attention and taking responsibility for its well-being. Americans should demand better-quality tailoring and versatility, moving from cheap and plentiful to more rare and valuable apparel. Moreover, Schor argues that small-scale design shops with customized production offer an alternative to Nike-style employment arrangements...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Material World | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

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