Word: sweatshop
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...reality, though, is that the new-media and high-technology workplace today often more closely resembles a piecework-industry sweatshop than a pristine NASA laboratory. New Internet businesses, financially strapped and compelled to set up shop on pricey real estate in Manhattan's Silicon Alley or California's Silicon Valley, have to scrimp on the office space, using converted industrial lofts crammed with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn...
Within a year, the group had several dozen active members and an e-mail list of several hundred students. Through the PSLM Hennefeld helped organize several protests, including a visit by two sweatshop workers from the Dominican Republic. In March, he helped organize a "Rally for Justice" which featured hundreds of students chanting slogans outside University Hall. "The strategy here is two-pronged, involving both education and action," Hennefeld says. "We also felt we would be most effective on campus by getting students involved with issues relating to their own university...
When Hennefeld is not organizing mass protests or negotiating with a Harvard attorney on sweatshop issues, the Brooklyn, N.Y. native can be found at WHRB, where he hosts a blues program on Sunday mornings. He also plays guitar for the local Whiskey Moan...
...This economist has taken an active role in using scholarship to affect change. He is currently studying the sweatshop movement at Harvard and is working to make Election Day an official holiday so more people--particularly the poor--can go to the polls...
While both the sweatshop campaign and wage campaign have infused their rhetoric with their moral imperatives, they also have attempted to redefine who exactly is included in the "Harvard community" and what level of respect--financial and otherwise--they deserve...