Word: sweatshops
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...fact, there are ways to improve sweatshop conditions without costing Harvard a lot of money or causing workers to lose their jobs. The most important step for Harvard is to join the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization of universities that monitors sweatshops and holds management accountable for working conditions. The Harvard Corporation has thus far refused to join the WRC, citing an alleged lack of corporate participation and leadership. The organization was founded only a year ago, and some consider this a drawback as well. In fact, on both counts the WRC has made considerable progress: It was incorporated...
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...
...group then took its protest to outside of Lamont and Widener libraries. Carrying large signs detailing the alleged abuses of the Nicaraguan factory, they distributed leaflets and urged passersby to sign an anti-sweatshop petition...
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...