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...idea was quickly discarded, and as a result, PSLM took a backseat to the new school of campus labor activists and focused instead on lobbying for the University to enter into the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an international sweatshop watchdog group that Harvard ended up joining in December...
...unions have increasingly driven the polishers to Surat, where wages for diamond cutters are lower, at $2,500-$3,500 a year, and workers are more pliable. In the past, Surat's diamond industry has been a hot spot of controversy, attracting accusations that some workshops employ children in sweatshop conditions. Many of Surat's diamond workshops are tiny family-run units, which makes it hard to gather reliable information about them. But recent studies suggest that the use of child labor, although not completely eradicated in Surat, is now miniscule and declining rapidly as the city's diamond industry...
...Filming the series was a sweatshop grind. "We shot 18 to 20 hours a day," Zhao recalls. "There were two groups of actors. One shot during the day, one at night. Frequently I'd have to do both. A few times I worked so hard that I actually threw up from the exertion. But I was young then. I didn't get tired easily. And I never complained about the working conditions. I thought that's just how it was supposed to be. Now I know that's wrong. But at the time I had no clue. Whatever they...
Starbucks only grudgingly entered the Fair Trade market four years ago after protesters scheduled rallies against its "sweatshop coffee." Today activist groups such as the Global Exchange in San Francisco are demanding that it hike Fair Trade purchases from about 1% to at least 5% of its coffee. The $4 billion Seattle behemoth offers only one Fair Trade variety (at $11.45 lb.) out of 20-plus types of whole beans and serves Fair Trade brew in its 3,900 U.S. shops only one day a month. Says Anthony Sprauve, vice president for worldwide public affairs: "The demand is not there...
...growing force in civil society. They work at the grass-roots on such causes as curbing AIDS in Africa, saving rainforests in Brazil, building literacy in Central America and tutoring American youth in high schools or juvenile halls. Harvard students have led the way towards living wage and anti-sweatshop standards. Though not political in a narrow sense, their work impacts the climate of politics and often leads to government action. It would be in the interest of Harvard students and the IOP to support participant observation in many of these advocacy groups, which are often on the cutting edge...