Word: sweatshops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California, J-Paul Dumont knocked down the walls between his grown children's bedrooms in his Palo Alto home to set up a deluxe sweatshop complete with mirrored walls, sophisticated weight-lifting devices and a chrome rack that contains rows of dumb-bells. A whirlpool tub is in the bath next door. The $100,000 price tag also bought style: the entire suite is done in art deco. Working out, says Dumont, 55, an investment banker, "is a lot better at home...
...Angeles, Chinese-born Angela Hom, 21, grew up in a sweatshop owned by her parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
...Bumgartner are prosperous, they can look forward to a promising future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...
...Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1982, at least partly because their reporters used false identities. The Sun-Times set up a saloon business and paid bribes to city officials; a Herald-Examiner reporter claimed to be an illegal alien and took a job in a garment-industry sweatshop...
...they have seen is not allegations of government wrongdoing, but a comprehensive look at one of Harvard's fastest growing operations. From the detailed chronology in the early "Calendar" chapter to the pithy biographical sketches in the final "Faculty" section, a clear picture emerges of this annual eight-week sweatshop...