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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html
Battling Sweatshops Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.behindthelabel.org/
Behind the Label Open in a new browser window
   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/
http://www.progress.org/muse08.htm
Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed. Open in a new browser window
   U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.
   http://www.progress.org/muse08.htm
http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign Open in a new browser window
   Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
   http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/creed.html
Campaign for Real, Equitable Economic Development (CREED) Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.aed-ccsg.org/
Center for Civil Society and Governance Open in a new browser window
   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/
http://ihscslnews.org/
Child Slave Labor News Open in a new browser window
   Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
   http://ihscslnews.org/
http://www.cleanclothes.org/
Clean Clothes Campaign Open in a new browser window
   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/
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/
Co-op America: Sweatshops Open in a new browser window
   Aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, and international human and labor rights.
   http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/
http://www.fairlabor.org/
Fair Labor Association Open in a new browser window
   Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
   http://www.fairlabor.org/
http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
Garment Worker Center Open in a new browser window
   Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.
   http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
http://www.liberationink.com
Liberation Ink Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
Maquila Solidarity Network Open in a new browser window
   Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.
   http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
http://www.microrevolt.org/
MicroRevolt Open in a new browser window
   Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.
   http://www.microrevolt.org/
http://www.nlcnet.org/
National Labor Committee Open in a new browser window
   Organization focused on human rights abuses and sweatshops. Provides articles and news releases detailing developments in the anti-sweatshop community.
   http://www.nlcnet.org/
http://www.nmass.org/
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops Open in a new browser window
   NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
   http://www.nmass.org/
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
No Sweat Open in a new browser window
   Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
   http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
http://www.sweatthefilm.org
SWEAT: A Story of Solidarity Open in a new browser window
   Independent documentary film about the lives of Nike factory workers in Indonesia.
   http://www.sweatthefilm.org
http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/04news.html
Salon News: Sweatshops Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.sweatfree.org
SweatFree Communities Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
Sweatshop Reform Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
Sweatshop Journal Open in a new browser window
   Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
   http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
Sweatshop Watch Open in a new browser window
   A coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Includes FAQs, examples of abuse, action alerts, resources and current projects.
   http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
http://www.thailabour.org/index.html
Thai Labour Campaign Open in a new browser window
   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
http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) Open in a new browser window
   An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
   http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/
http://www.verite.org/
Verité Open in a new browser window
   Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
   http://www.verite.org/
http://www.workersrights.org
Worker Rights Consortium Open in a new browser window
   Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.
   http://www.workersrights.org

Last Updated: 2007-06-06 01:37:12