Word: sweatshops
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...Salvador, you can have someone killed for less than $12. That's what I discovered two weeks ago, when I met other anti-sweatshop activists from Central America...
...they know the kind of trade advertised as "free trade" comes at a tremendous price. And it is not the corporations who will pay. For the past two years, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) anti-sweatshop campaign has fought to turn Harvard and its apparel licensing from an appendage of corporate America into a weapon against globalization without representation--the WTO's brand of trade. Because the sweatshirts, baseball caps and T-shirts that bear our schools' names are made in sweatshops across the globe, we can fight international injustice where we live, and bring attention...
...while the student anti-sweatshop movement has had a heartening string of recent successes, we wouldn't have to do this work at all if it were not for flawed organizations like...
Benjamin L. McKean '02 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. He is a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement and part of its anti-sweatshop campaign...
...Despite Clinton's sunny win-win beliefs, environmental interests often clash directly with those of business. And while American labor rails against sweatshop conditions in developing countries and gets the President's sympathy, many of those sweatshops are actually manufacturing goods for American corporations...