Word: sweatshops
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PSLM members said they saw the event as an important rallying point for the anti-sweatshop movement...
...directly relates to the sweatshop campaign, because the WTO doesn't take workers into account, with the general tendency to push the global economy to the lowest common denominator," said PSLM member Aron R. Fischer...
...Labor practices U.S. labor, with the verbal support of the Clinton administration, is pushing for the WTO to enforce minimum labor standards in developing countries, protesting that manufacturers are exploiting sweatshop conditions. But the governments of many developing countries see this as an attempt by Washington to protect American jobs at the expense of the Third World poor. With low labor costs often the only competitive advantage many developing countries have in the global economy, they fear that enforcing labor standards will simply expand unemployment in the developing world...
...think that the whole [ACSR] committee has been pretty strong on anti-sweatshop standards," said Donahue...
...attention students from Harvard and other universities have lavished on the sweatshop issue is starting to pay dividends, Wheatley says...