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  2. The Myth of the Ethical Shopper - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Which leads us to the first flaw with our existing model of anti-sweatshop advocacy. It’s not the largest or the second-largest company we should be worried about anymore. It’s the 44th, or the 207th. Those small-batch, hemp-woven Daisy Dukes you bought in Dumbo are far more likely to be made in a sweatshop than your $7 H&M gym shorts.

  3. Anti-sweatshop movement - Wikipedia

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    Some people, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristoff, argue that the anti-sweatshop movement "risks harming the very people it is aiming to help." [ 13 ] This is because sweatshops signify the start of an industrial revolution in China and offer people a path towards making money and escaping poverty. [ 13 ]

  4. Sweatshop - Wikipedia

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    The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Employees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of sweatshop workers and may be forced by employers to take birth ...

  5. Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act - Wikipedia

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    Sweatshop imports are a moral crime. They violate the values of our families, of our faith and of the history of this country. They are a moral crime against the working men and women, and, I am afraid, working children of the developing nations. Sweatshop imports are economic suicide for our country.

  6. What's Life In A Sweatshop Like? Ask This 9-Year Old Manager

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    What's it like to work in a sweatshop? The underbelly of global labor is rarely exposed to the light of day, but one reporter for the Toronto Star successfully landed a gig over the summer working ...

  7. New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 - Wikipedia

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    Garment industry workers often worked in small sweatshops. [3] Work weeks of 65 hours were normal, and in season they might expand to as many as 75 hours. Despite their meager wages, workers were often required to supply their own basic materials, including needles, thread, and sewing machines.

  8. The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp

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    This system isn’t unique to Amazon—it pervades the U.S. retail supply chain. Many companies choose to outsource shipping work to so-called third-party logistics providers, which in turn contract the work to staffing companies. At some of Walmart’s critical logistics hubs, multiple temp agencies may be providing workers under the same roof ...

  9. Workplace fatalities on the rise: These are the top 10 most ...

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    Nearly 5,500 people died as a result of workplace injuries in the United States in 2022 — meaning someone died on the job every 96 minutes, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...