Word: sweatshops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...similar case comes up today, say, in the factory that produces your beswooshed hoodie, Harvard will be sitting on its hands. Despite broad public consensus against the appalling conditions in sweatshops, our administration still hasn’t taken the simple step that would ensure Harvard isn’t profiting off sweatshop labor—joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium...
Founded and governed by school administrators, labor experts and students, the WRC was created in response to public concern with sweatshop conditions and schools’ increasing complicity in them. The WRC monitors factories that produce clothing licensed by (bearing the logos of) its member schools. If factory conditions are in violation of those schools’ codes of conduct for apparel production, the WRC releases information about the violation publicly and seeks to mediate the dispute with the factory management and the licensed brand. The WRC has investigated every worker complaint it has received (it receives complaints from...
...charros,” the leaders of the “gangster union.” The caricatures represent the attack on employees who went on strike at Kukdong in December 2000 to establish the first ever workers’ union in a Mexican maquiladoro, or sweatshop...
...been raped or impregnated, were sent to convent Borstals run by some very nasty nuns. "Here," one sister tells a girl, "you will be saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow a visiting priest to force them into sex, and drive them to despair or madness or flailing rebellion...
...organs for fake passports, and the dangerous operations are performed in a London hotel room. For people following a dream of solvency from the Third World to the First, everything must be bought, at the cost of one's honor. "I don't want to take your virginity," a sweatshop owner tells an employee, forcing her into oral sex. "I just want you to help me relax...