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Battling Sweatshops 
Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html
Behind the Label 
A multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. Behind the Label represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothin
http://www.behindthelabel.org/
CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign 
Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
Campaign for Real, Equitable Economic Development (CREED) 
Anti-sweatshop group which sponsors the NY CISPES Traveling Sweatshop Theater, a dramatization of sweatshop conditions. Provides event calendar and information about immigration, neo-liberal economics, and labor activism.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/creed.html
Center for Civil Society and Governance 
Organization working to monitor and influence government policies and reform international markets. Campaigns focus on sweatshops and the conditions that create them.
http://www.aed-ccsg.org/
Child Slave Labor News 
Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
http://ihscslnews.org/
Clean Clothes Campaign 
Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/
Co-op America: Sweatshops 
Aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, and international human and labor rights.
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/
Fair Labor Association 
Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
http://www.fairlabor.org/
Garment Worker Center 
Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.
http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
Liberation Ink 
A worker-owned apparel printing and design collective created to fund social justice organizing. Site offers sweatshop-free printed t-shirts and accessories for sale.
http://www.liberationink.com
Maquila Solidarity Network 
Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
MicroRevolt 
Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.
http://www.microrevolt.org/
National Labor Committee 
Organization focused on human rights abuses and sweatshops. Provides articles and news releases detailing developments in the anti-sweatshop community.
http://www.nlcnet.org/
No Sweat 
Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
Salon News: Sweatshops 
Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/04news.html
SweatFree Communities 
Organization working to end sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide.
http://www.sweatfree.org
Sweatshop Reform 
Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
Sweatshop Journal 
Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
Sweatshop Watch 
A coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Includes FAQs, examples of abuse, action alerts, resources and current projects.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
Thai Labour Campaign 
Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.
http://www.thailabour.org/index.html
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) 
An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/
Verité 
Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
http://www.verite.org/
Worker Rights Consortium 
Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.
http://www.workersrights.org
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