Word: sweatshops
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...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...
...that same insensitivity is institutionalized in the global system whose symbolic headquarters have been the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Yet we rarely look at our lives in these larger terms. We don't feel personally responsible when a U.S. corporation runs a sweatshop in the Philippines or crushes efforts of workers to organize in Singapore. It never occurs to us that when the U.S. (with 5% of the world's population and 25% of the wealth) manages over the course of several decades to shape global trade policies that increase the disparity between rich and poor countries, this...
...profit company working with the Cambodian typists aims to create work for disabled people and provide a working environment that sets an example for other Cambodian companies,” says MacInnis. “This isn’t a sweatshop. We’ve been assured that it’s a comfortable, professional working environment...
...While I’m satisfied that [Digital Data Divide] doesn’t intend to run a sweatshop, I need to hear that from someone other than management before I can buy it,” McKean says...