Word: sweatshops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard students rallied outside Widener Library yesterday afternoon to protest a code of conduct aimed at protecting sweatshop workers, saying the code would not establish adequate labor standards for university-licensed products...
Yesterday's rally is the latest in a series of on-campus anti-sweatshop protests. In October, PSLM rallied for full disclosure. In April, more than 100 students gathered to call attention to sweatshop conditions in factories manufacturing Harvard insignia clothing...
...besides projecting an image of "maternal chic," would one opt to spend hours of toil on a pair of socks when one could support the local sweatshop by picking up a pair at Filene's Basement? Like foxhunts, senior theses and binge drinking, the point is the process, not the end result. "Nothing says I love you like a pair of well-knit socks," claims Lowell House sophomore Michael C. Large...
Government action has been minimal. In the past five years only a handful of sweatshop owners has been prosecuted for failing to pay workers. The government failure has created an even more lawless enclave. Local cops say that as the immigrants become more desperate for money, they often turn to crime. According to Tommy Ong of the New York police intelligence division, the sleazy employment agencies under the Manhattan Bridge that specialize in placing illegal immigrants in jobs around the country often misrepresent and oversell the type of work available. When workers return and can't pay off their immigration...
...Bowery warren is just one of scores set up to house illegal immigrants from China, men and women smuggled in to work in the teeming sweatshops and restaurants of New York City's many Chinatowns. "Here we live like pigs and eat like dogs," says Son Li, 66, who arrived four years ago and works 12-hr. shifts seven days a week as a clothes hanger in a sweatshop on Lafayette Street, a few blocks away from the Bowery barracks. He says he makes about $1 an hour, when his employer pays. He has paid dearly for the privilege...