Word: sweatshops
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...University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., the administrator responsible for sweatshop policy, said protests and policy changes at other schools will not affect Harvard's policies...
Following a week of anti-sweatshop activism across the country, about 200 Yale University students rallied to protest the administration's policy on sweatshop labor monitoring. More than 15 have vowed to continue an ongoing public "sleep...
...demands of the anti-sweatshop campaign of Harvard's Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) parallel those of the Yale students involved in yesterday's demonstration...
Holtzblatt said Yale President Robert C. Levin has refused repeated requests to meet with student activists to discuss sweatshop policy, necessitating public action...
...have been full-time professional shipwrights. The rest have been students, volunteers and part-timers from as far away as Milan and Liverpool. The work has taken more than twice as long as it took to build the original. One reason: today's shipbuilders don't keep the sweatshop hours common among the workers on the original Amistad. Another reason is that the first Amistad, like many boats of the era, was intended to sail for no more than 10 years before being scuttled for scrap. "Our new ship is built to last decades," says Snediker...