Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bassett, 24, is coached twice a week on exotic machines with names like the Reformer--and the benefits she describes sound miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels...
...their gym visits, which left them wiped out. "I like to do this in the morning because it gives me so much energy," says Alison Brown, 33, a Los Angeles student. The focus means they get a vacation from the stress of the outside world; the lack of sweat and panting makes it easier for them to rush back to it. "Most of my clients are working women with children," says Atlanta studio owner Penelope Wyer...
...Ahsan's editorial on child labor (April 22) was prompted by the ongoing efforts of Harvard Students for a Sweat-Free Campus and administrators to develop a Code of Conduct for licensees of Harvard apparel, a Code that will set standards for working conditions in the factories that produce the clothes, to be enforced via a system of independent monitoring. While making a compelling argument, Ahsan unfortunately has only partly heeded the considerations that I pointed out to him after seeing his concerns on an e-mail list...
...writer is a founding member of Progressive Student Labor Movement and an organizer of Harvard Students for a Sweat-Free Campus...
Recently there's been an upsurge in visible activism on campus with the successful Sweat-Free Rally in the yard, and indications that the University might introduce a fair labor practices code for its licensees. As the focus now shifts from a consensus on the need to do something about sweatshops in principle, to the methods for translating these principles into better conditions for workers in reality, we should carefully consider the various implications that any regulations adopted might have. Of paramount importance should be the consideration that our pursuit of fair labor principle does not unintentionally make workers worse...