Word: sweatshops
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Even Harvard students who do not consider themselves particularly liberal would generally agree that sweatshop labor is objectionable. After all, these factories pay their workers pennies per hour to work shifts of 12 hours or more at a time, under the most dehumanizing conditions. Their health and safety are jeopardized in various ways, ranging from being denied bathroom breaks to having to work with dangerous tools and chemicals. Unionizing is forbidden. Over 90 percent of the workers are women, who are often subjected to sexual harassment or abuse. Clearly, these conditions are appalling, and cannot be justified by any means...
...difficulty of non-FLA observers in locating—never mind receiving permission to visit—factories that produce Harvard products underlines the challenge facing United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), whose members are gathering at a national anti-sweatshop conference for students at Tufts University this weekend...
...They are an elaborate, corporate cover-up,” she says, noting that Nike—a corporation that has been a major target of anti-sweatshop activism—was a founding member...
Members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops met with University officials last fall to press them to join the WRC, a non-profit monitoring agency founded by unions, non-governmental organizations and universities to prevent overseas sweatshop labor...
This is Boston’s South End: an intriguing dale of pansy-overflowing window boxes and expansive homeless shelters, where Zagat’s best-rated Thai restaurant in Boston sits midway between the water-treatment facility on the riverbank and the Miller art gallery in a converted sweatshop. In contrast to its well-explored, much-touted Northern counterpart, the South End is a pristinely blank page in the mental guidebooks to Boston compiled by most students in the area...