sweatshop
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
sweatshop see sweating system .
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10 makers, retailers sign on for Clinton's anti-sweatshop panel.(President Clinton, apparel manufacturers and retailers)
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... produce tough criteria to make sure sweatshops are not used and to make sure consumers ... anniversary of a raid on an El Monte, Calif., sweatshop employing about 70 illegal Thai immigrants ... exclusively at Wal-Mart Stores was produced by sweatshops in Honduras and New York. She has since become Reich's ...
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A new anti-sweatshop strategy.(introduced by Department of Labor)
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... Forward 09-01-2000 New Generation Rises to Sweatshop Cause NEW YORK -- Like thousands of other ... college students for efforts on behalf of sweatshop workers along with broader issues such ... the Los Angeles Jewish Commission on Sweatshops. The commission was formed in 1997 as ...
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Sweatshop bill would make vendors, retailers liable for contractor violations.
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... Clinton administration's efforts to stem sweatshop labor aren't enough, two Congressional ... Exploitation of workers will not be tolerated. Sweatshops are unacceptable. We intend to do all ... loophole in our labor laws that has allowed sweatshop production to once again invade the apparel ...
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Sweatshops still abusing workers.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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... authorities found 72 Thai immigrants imprisoned in a sweatshop in El Monte, Calif. Smuggled into the country, held ... to place this unusually barbaric garment-industry sweatshop, and sweatshops in general, in historical context. Titled ``Between ...
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Activists mark El Monte with retailer scorecard.(Sweatshop Watch and El Monte, California, sewing factory)
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LOS ANGELES -- Activist group Sweatshop Watch marked the second anniversary of the ... on Aug. 3, 1995, unleashed a wave of anti-sweatshop action from the government and activist groups. Sweatshop Watch says its report card spotlights retailers ...
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U.S.-EUROPE SWEATSHOP SUMMIT CALLED USEFUL, WORTH REPEATING.
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