Word: sweatshops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some students said that hearing workers’ personal stories made them feel more strongly about sweatshop conditions...
...urged students to refuse to allow American universities to perpetuate the “starvation wages and miserable living conditions” of the sweatshop laborers...
Although Kernaghan and the workers criticized universities’ tolerance for sweatshop working conditions, they also urged students to fight to keep the collegiate apparel business in Bangladesh. Workers need jobs, they said. But they also need solid labor laws to protect them...
...profit monitoring agency founded by unions, non-governmental organizations and universities to prevent overseas sweatshop labor...
...It’s not something that requires large numbers [of people],” Horowitz said. “We just want to get the message to the Coop that we don’t support sweatshop labor...