Word: sweatshops
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Members of the HSAS group, who were chanting anti-sweatshop slogans, were quickly ushered out the door by Liander, who declined comment for this story...
Disregarding the need for privacy, suggests Brill, results "in a kind of masked sweatshop mentality. The cost reductions in physical plants have blinded people to the benefits of employees' being able to concentrate on their work and having necessary private moments...
...Domini is a capitalist tool from a different mold. "Making money," says the mutual-fund mogul, "is different from stealing money." Companies that manufacture cigarettes, pollute rivers or sell sweatshop goods are robbing from the public welfare, as she sees it. Capital is the tool Domini uses to knock them over the head...
University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., Harvard's point person on sweatshop policy, said the entire report will be available on the Internet for the community to read and comment...
TIME But since it brought so much attention to the sweatshop issue, wasn't it ultimately a good thing...