Word: sweatshops
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...some, craft consciousness has a political aspect. "There is a glut of cheap sweatshop-produced clothing out there, and it's so easy to go overboard and buy too much of it," says Shoshana Berger, founder and editor of ReadyMade magazine, a bimonthly based in Berkeley, Calif., that provides 100,000 readers mainly in their 20s and 30s with a slate of fashion, home and garden projects. "Not only are people recognizing that this mass-produced stuff is unimaginative, they're also feeling guilty about supporting unfair labor practices...
...billion in revenues, but it has leapt to the center of national attention following the December purchase by U.S. giant Electronic Arts of a 20% stake in French rival Ubisoft. "There's a lot of creativity in France, and we don't want to end up as another sweatshop for video gaming like India or Morocco," says Romain Poirot-Lellig, director of the industry association APOM. EA says its intentions are not hostile and industry sources in the U.S. point out that one of Ubisoft's best-selling games is - mon dieu! - that great French cultural gem, Tom Clancy...
...production has turned her DeWolfe common room into what her roommates brand a “sweatshop,” but fellow model Stanek remains primarily amused by the attention, if not truly committed to the cause...
...idea was quickly discarded, and as a result, PSLM took a backseat to the new school of campus labor activists and focused instead on lobbying for the University to enter into the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an international sweatshop watchdog group that Harvard ended up joining in December...
...unions have increasingly driven the polishers to Surat, where wages for diamond cutters are lower, at $2,500-$3,500 a year, and workers are more pliable. In the past, Surat's diamond industry has been a hot spot of controversy, attracting accusations that some workshops employ children in sweatshop conditions. Many of Surat's diamond workshops are tiny family-run units, which makes it hard to gather reliable information about them. But recent studies suggest that the use of child labor, although not completely eradicated in Surat, is now miniscule and declining rapidly as the city's diamond industry...