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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. New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 - Wikipedia

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   When the upper-class women were arrested alongside the striking workers, the arrests made front-page news (which did not occur when the strike only included working-class women). Belmont rented New York Hippodrome for a rally in support of the workers, and wealthy women donated in support of the cause. [5]

4. Women's Trade Union League - Wikipedia

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   The League had a closer relationship with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the union formed by the most militant locals of mostly immigrant workers in the men's clothing industry in Chicago, New York and other eastern urban centers, which was outside the AFL. The WTUL trained women as labor leaders and organizers at its school ...

5. 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike - Wikipedia

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   The 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike, also known as the Hart, Schaffner and Marx (HSM) strike, was a labor strike established and led by women in which diverse workers in the garment industry showed their capability to unify across ethnic boundaries in response to an industry's low wages, unrealistic production demands, and poor working conditions.

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. American Apparel: the downside to sweatshop-free labor - AOL

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   Further evidence that it's untenable for garment factories to employ American citizens while making a profit: troubles for American Apparel (APP), long targeted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

8. Sweatshops still run in the US, but labor laws are changing - AOL

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9. Pink-collar worker - Wikipedia

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   At the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, large numbers of single women in the United States traveled to large cities such as New York where they found work in factories and sweatshops, working for low pay operating sewing machines, sorting feathers, rolling tobacco, and other similar menial tasks.