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History of Sweatshops

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 to Present The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, 1911 Cornell University
  • El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops Article by Julie Su, Sweatshop Watch board member (1997)
  • El Monte Sweatshop: Interactive Exhibit California, 1995
  • Behind The Label
  • Co-Op America Quarterly's Sweatshop Site

    United States

    (groups working to support workers in the U.S.)

  • Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Oakland CA
  • Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
  • Campaign for Labor Rights US farm worker struggles
  • Chinese Staff & Workers Association New York
  • Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
  • Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, Texas
  • Garment Industry Development Corporation New York
  • Fuerza Unida Texas
  • Garment Worker Center Los Angeles
  • Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Los Angeles
  • La Mujer Obrera, Texas
  • National Interfaith Committee for Worker Jusice US poultry workers
  • National Mobilization Against Sweatshops New York
  • Sweatshop Watch California
  • Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE)
  • "The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: Reflections, Resistance and Re/solutions.

    International

    (groups working to support workers outside the U.S.)

    Africa

  • Clean Clothes Campaign H & M Campaign in Mauritius and Madagascar
  • Southern Africa Migration Project
  • "Selling Our People: Summary Report on Garment Production in Lesotho" Clean Clothes Campaign, July 2001

    Asia

  • Asia Monitor Resource Center Supports democratic and independent labor movements in Asia, including garment and toy industries
  • Boycott Nike Home Page Nike in Vietnam
  • Campaign for Labor RightsNike in Indonesia
  • Committee of Asian Women
  • CorpWatch Exposes labor and environmental abuses at NIKE factories in Viet Nam
  • Global Exchange: China Campaign
  • The Globe-Trotting Sports Shoe
  • National Labor Committee China, Burma/Myanmar
  • Tie Asia includes useful briefings on Bilateral Trade Agreements
  • Thai Labour Campaign
  • "Beware of Mickey: Disney Sweatshops in South China" by the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (December 1, 2000)
  • Campaign for the Abolition of Sweatshops and Child Labour
  • Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee

    Australia

  • Community Aid Abroad, JUST STOP IT. The Nike Watch Campaign
  • Fair Wear
  • No Sweat Shop Campaign/Homeworkers Code of Practice

    Canada

  • Just Do It! The Nike Boycott Spreads across Alberta Canada
  • Maquila Solidarity Network

    Europe

  • Clean Clothes Campaign
  • Christian Aid (U.K.), A SPORTING CHANCE: Tackling child labour in India's sports goods industry
  • The Labour Behind the Label, United Kingdom
  • OXFAM, United Kingdom
  • Corporate Responsibily Europe
  • NoSweat (UK)
  • Women Working Worldwide
  • Social environment and standards at the work place in the garment industry in Bulgaria
  • Labour Behind the Label

    Latin America

  • Campaign for Labor Rights
  • Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
  • Cross Border Blues: A Call for Justice for Maquiladora Workers in Tehuacan
  • National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
  • The Latin American Alliance
  • Latin America Working Group
  • Maquila Solidarity Network
  • Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network
  • "A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in Mexio's Maquiladora Sector" Human Rights Watch Report, December 1998
  • National Labor Committee
  • Peace through Interamerican Community Action
  • Resource Center for the Americas
  • Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers
  • Sweatgear
  • U.S. Labor Education in the America's Project (U.S. LEAP)

    Resources for Teachers and Students

  • Behind The Label
  • The Development Education Association provides a range of resources for teaching and learning about globalisation
  • Maquila Solidarity Network, Stop Sweatshops: An Education/Action Kit for Teachers, Students, and Activists
  • National Labor Committee Student Action
  • Resource Center for the Americas: Teacher's Room
  • Rethinking Schools
  • The Rough Guide to Globalisation (for teachers)
  • Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
  • UNITE's High Schools Against Sweatshops
  • United Students Against Sweatshops
  • Worker Rights Consortium
  • Sweat-Free Purchasing
  • Glossary of Commonly Used Terms

    Consumer & Corporate Campaigns

  • AFL-CIO Boycott Page
  • As You Sow
  • Behind The Label Global Justice for Garment Workers Campaign
  • Boycott Action News
  • Campaign for Labor Rights
  • Clean Clothes Campaign Adidas, Benneton, C & A, Disney, Phillips-Van Heusen, Gap, H & M, Levi-Strauss, Nike, Otto, Fruit of the Loom
  • Community Aid Abroad, JUST STOP IT. The Nike Watch Campaign
  • Consumers International
  • CorpWatch
  • Free Burma Coalition Campaigns againsts companies sourcing products made in Burma
  • Garment Worker Center Forever 21 Boycott
  • Global Exchange, Corporate Accountability Campaign Gap, Nike
  • Guess? Sweatshop Abuses
  • Label Letter quarterly publication of labor boycotts (or call 800-LABEL-911)
  • Maquila Solidarity Network Campaigns include Nike, Gap, & the Toy Industry
  • National Labor Committee, People's Right to Know Campaign Wal-Mart, Kathie Lee, Liz Claiborne, Disney, Nike, Gap, Ralph Lauren, Target
  • National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Ain't I a Woman Campaign DKNY Girlcott, Sears
  • PICA's Bangor (Maine) Clean Clothes Campaign Maine State Ethical Purchasing Bill Campaign
  • Sweatshop Watch Corporate Accountability Campaign
  • United Students Against Sweatshops Nike and university gear
  • U.S./Labor Education in the America's Project

    Shopping Guides

  • AFL-CIO's "Worker-Friendly Products"
  • Just Shoppers' Guide
  • Just Shoppers' Guide to Sport Shoes
  • PICA's Clean Clothes Shopping Guide
  • Responsible Shopping information provided by Working Assets and Co-op America
  • Responsible Shopping Guide published by Global Exchange Or contact 415/255-7296
  • UNITE's Consumer Guide to Decent Clothes

    Alternatives to Sweatshops

  • No Sweat Apparel is a brand-new, 100% union made sweatshop alternative attempting to change the garment industry and influence sweatshop abusers by providing competitive products to Western consumers while also paying union shops and coops around the world a living wage. Find Ts, fashion athletic wear, sweats, hoodies, denim jackets, scarves and boucle caps.
  • Ethical Threads is a brand of clothing and merchandise sourced from workplaces that meet international conventions on workers rights and which are verified by free trade unions
  • Unite Union is the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. Contact UNITE for union-made gear
  • Fuerza Unida, the former Levi's workers in San Antonio, Texas they have formed a sewing co-op that makes and silk-screens t-shirts, canvas bags, and flags. Orders can be made by calling 210-927-2294.
  • Global Exchange offers Fair Trade alternatives such as gift baskets, artwork, crafts, coffee, tea and clothing from Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Educational books and videos are also available. Call 800-497-1994.
  • Fair Trade Federation has dozens of links to online fair trade catalogs for products such as jewelry, gifts, clothing and food. Call 660-665-8962.
  • Clean Clothes Connection The People's Marketplace the People's Marketplace, a place where you can both obtain and provide information about conditions under which products are made.

    Codes of Conduct/Monitoring

  • Clean Clothes Campaign: Model Code
  • Fair Labor Association, White House Apparel Industry Partnership Documents, analysis, and commentary
  • Women Working Worldwide: Women Workers and Codes of Conduct
  • Worker Rights Consortium
  • Sweatshop Watch:

    Women

  • AFL-CIO's "Working Women Department" Covers issues such as child care, elder care, equal pay, and job training
  • Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)
  • Feminist Majority, Feminists Against Sweatshops
  • The Labour Behind the Label United Kingdom
  • Mujeres Unidas y Activas
  • National Network on Behalf of Battered Immigrant Women
  • La Linea: Gender, Labor & Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border Corporate Watch feature on maquiladoras, July 1999
  • "A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in Mexio's Maquiladora Sector" Human Rights Watch Report, December 1998
  • Stitch Online STITCH brings women union leaders together from North and Central America to share organizing strategies and build leadership
  • "Working for Women's Human Rights" Sweatshop Watch Newsletter, Spring 2000
  • Treated Like Slaves: Donna Karan Inc. Violates Women Workers' Rights Center for Economic & Social Rights, December 1999
  • Women of Color Resource Center
  • Women Working Worldwide
  • "Whose Safety?: Women of Color & the Violence of Law Enforcement" A working paper published by the American Friends Service Committee and Committee on Women, Population, and Environment (2001)

    Globalization and Trade

  • "The Globalization of Sweatshops" Sweatshop Watch Newsletter, Summer 2000
  • The Global Policy Forum
  • Americas Program
  • Globalization and Labor Standards

    Organizations

  • Alliance for Responsible Trade
  • Campaign for Real, Equitable Economic Development (CREED), Resisting the Global Sweatshop
  • Global Trade Watch
  • Southwest Alliance to Resist Militarization

    NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement

  • Human Rights Watch Report 2001: United States Labor violations in NAFTA countries
  • Lessons from Mexico's Maquilas: Dispelling the Myths of Free Trade Maquila Solidarity Network
  • "Trading Away Rights: The Unfulfilled Promise of NAFTA's Labor Side Agreement" Human Rights Watch, April 2001
  • "NAFTA's Powerful Little Secret" by Anthony DePalma New York Times, Mar 11, 2001
  • "NAFTA's Investor 'Rights' A Corporate Dream, A Citizen Nightmare" by Mary Bottari. Multinational Monitor, April 2001
  • NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-to-State Cases: Bankrupting Democracy by Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
  • Trading Away Rights: The Unfulfilled Promise of NAFTA's Labor Side Agreement by Human Rights Watch
  • The Labor Side Accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement by Jerome I. Levinson (PDF)
  • NAFTA at Seven: A Briefing Paper by the Economic Policy Institute (PDF)
  • Seven Years Under NAFTA by Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies (PDF)

    FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas

  • Official FTAA Web site
  • Clearinghouse for organizing efforts against FTAA in North America
  • FTAA "Campaign of Inquiry" Packet Includes background info on FTAA, action points, and sample letters to members of Congress
  • Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA Global Exchange
  • "Resist the FTAA--the Latest Race to the Bottom" Sweatshop Watch Newsletter, Spring 2001
  • Stop the FTAA Mexico-US Border Action Project
  • The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in Canada and the Americas by Maude Barlow of The Council of Canadians (also in Espanol, Francais, and Portugues)
  • NAFTA Investor Rights Plus: An Analysis of the Draft Investment Chapter of the FTAAa report by Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (PDF)
  • Inside the Fortress: What's going on at the FTAA negotiations a detailed briefing paper by Marc Lee of the Candian Centre for Policy Alternatives (PDF)

    Living Wage

  • Global Living Wages, Center for Popular Economics
  • Living Wage Resoures & Links, Political Economy Research Institute
  • ACORN Living Wage Campaign
  • Living Wage Campaign in the UK
  • Living Wage Project
  • National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
  • National Labor Committee Living Wage Cartoon
  • National Living Wage Resource Center
  • Living Wage Successes: A Compilation of Living Wage Policies on the Books
  • "Making the Invisible Visible: A Study of the Purchasing Power of Maquila Workers in Mexico--2000" A Research Project by the Center for Reflection, Education and Action; Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras; and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
  • Sweatshop Watch's Living Wage Summit (1998) Includes a Working Living Wage Methodology The Living Wage Campaign
  • Report on Living Wage Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb 2000

    Immigration

  • Labor Immigrant Organizing Network (LION) San Francsico Bay Area
  • Migrant Rights Watch
  • National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
  • National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  • National Network on Behalf of Battered Immigrant Women
  • Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights
  • Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network (SIREN) San Jose, CA
  • "A Hand-in-Hand Struggle: Immigration & the Rights of Garment Workers" Sweatshop Watch Newsletter, Fall 2000
  • "Employer Sanctions: The Political Economy of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S." By David Bacon, May 13, 2001
  • "Labor Fights for Immigrants" By David Bacon, May 5, 2001
  • Braceros Or Amnesty?By David Bacon, July 22, 2001
  • Stories & Photos by David Bacon on Immigrants, Unions, the Worplace and more
  • UN World Conference Against Racism and Xenophobia Web Site Information about the 2001 conference to be held in South Africa
  • Washington Alliance for Immigrant and Refugee Justice
  • Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

    Health and Safety

  • Corporate Accountability.The organization began operations in 1999 to promote worker and public safety by providing advice and conducting research and advocacy on issues related to law enforcement and corporate accountability.
  • UCLA "Voices from the Margins: Immigrant Workers'Perceptions of Health and Safety in the Workplace."UCLA-LOSH conducted an in-depth ethnographic study of 75 immigrant workers in six industries in Southern California between January and October 2001.

    Child Labor
  • Child Labour in Industrial China: Multi-National companies closes eye to endorse child labour
  • Christian Aid (U.K.), A SPORTING CHANCE: Tackling child labour in India's sports goods industry
  • Foul Ball Campaign, International Labor Rights Fund
  • Sweatshop-Free Albuquerque Coalition: Committed to ending child labor and sweatshop abuses locally and globally (505-296-0949)
  • The Scourge of Child Labor Multinational Monitor, January/February 1997
  • Child Labor in the US is Worse Today Than in the 1930s Project Censored
  • Child Labor Education and Action Project (CLEA) Prepares youth advocates to eradicate abusive child labor policies and practices
  • "Underage Unions: Child laborers speak up" by Sarah Bachman (Mother Jones, Nov./Dec. 2000)
  • The Rugmark Initiative, International Labor Rights Fund
  • Campaign for the Abolition of Sweatshops and Child Labour"
  • The Child Slave Labor News

    Unions

  • International Textile, Garment & Leather Workers' Federation
  • UNITE! Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Eomployees
  • Union Label and Service Trades
  • Union Label and Service Trades, SEARCH for Union Made Products
  • Labornet: Directory of Labor Unions, Organizations, and Resources on the Internet
  • UNITE Press Box: News Resources
  • AFL-CIO Home Page
  • Stop Sweatshops
  • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

    Governmental Resources

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
  • International Labour Organization (ILO)
  • National Labor Relations Board

    U.S. Department of Labor

  • Protect ing America's Garment Workers: A Monitoring Guide
  • Protect ing America's Garment Workers: Wage and Hour Enforcement Approach
  • Garment Enforcement Timeline, June 1995 - July 1996
  • "Hot Goods" factsheet
  • Dynamic Change in the Garment Industry: How Firms and Workers Can Survive and Thrive
  • The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem?
  • 19 Country Profiles on Child Labor
  • Agreement between Jessica McClintock Inc and AIWA
  • No Sweat Page
  • Garment Enforcement Report, October - December 2000

    News Articles and Reports

  • Barbie's Betrayal - sweatshops in the toy industry The Nation, 12/30/96
  • "Beware of Mickey: Disney Sweatshops in South China" by the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (December 1, 2000)
  • Blood, Sweat & Shears Corporate Watch feature on sweatshops, September 1997
  • Corporate Watch - reports on the World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • The Heartland's Raw Deal - sweatshops in the meat-packing industry The Nation, 2/3/97
  • Labor is Back, So Are Sweatshops New York Now
  • La Linea: Gender, Labor & Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border Corporate Watch feature on maquiladoras, July 1999
  • Los Angeles Jewish Commission on Sweatshops issues report on L.A. garment industry January 1999
  • Treated Like Slaves: Donna Karan Inc. Violates Women Workers' Rights Center for Economic & Social Rights, December 1999
  • Santa's sweatshop: It's hard to know where gifts were made U.S. News, 12/16/96
  • Sweatshops and the Consumer MSNBC On Air, 1997
  • Please also visit our Headlines and Newsletters pages for more articles and reports
  • Collective Bargaining Rights: Information on the Number of Workers with and without Bargaining Rights. GAO-02-835, September 13.

    Other Related Sites

  • Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) National Boycott against Taco Bell
  • CorpWatch
  • Council on Economic Priorities
  • Executive Pay Watch
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Interhemispheric Resource Center
  • Jobs With Justice
  • Labor Notes
  • WebActive
  • High Tech Sweatshops Corporate Watch Image Gallery
  • Sweatshop Journal

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