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...abroad, and executives are considering codes of good labor conduct. Many Americans, now accustomed to boycotting lettuce, grapes and tuna fish for humanitarian and ecological reasons, are shifting their scrutiny to the conditions under which their running shoes and their kids' toys are produced. Those conditions often include a sweatshop pace, low wages, long working hours and little freedom for workers to organize or speak their mind...
...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...
...hour, shucking shrimp and cleaning latrines. Then he was fired after two weeks to make room for another illegal who could pony up the $60 employment-agency fee that new arrivals are routinely charged. Now Lin is busy sewing labels and zippers on counterfeit designer jeans in a Brooklyn sweatshop, earning about $800 a month in exchange for a 12-hour day, six days a week...
...wasn't easy. His father Edward Zeiger died in 1944 when Larry was only 10. (His brother Marty was six.) His mother Jennie went on relief for a year and then got a job in a sweatshop. King had long dreamed of being on radio and after high school took a job in the mail room of a New York office building that also happened to house a radio station. Five years later, in 1957, hearing that Miami was a more promising venue, he caught a bus heading south, started pounding on doors and finally was hired as a disk...
...Mike Davis recreate the dizzying sensation of that approach by surveying the economy of the Downtown area. While perhaps a bit dry and statistical, these essays paint a fascinating portrait of a region filled almost exclusively with immigrants from Latin America and the Pacific Basin who work in sweatshop conditions and have virtually no political power...