And some sweatshops are in places where there is fighting.
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Many are in Italy illegally and work in semi-clandestine sweatshops.
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"Gardener, home health care, sweatshops, you name it," Gilmore told me.
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No more sweatshops or pollution havens stealing jobs from American workers.
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There is almost nothing like China's electronics factories or Bangladesh's textile sweatshops.
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Compared to the post-industrial prosperity Americans enjoy today, "sweatshops" seem inhuman.
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Nike cracked down on sweatshops and increased the minimum age of workers.
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In the 1990s, critics charged the company with running sweatshops in Asia.
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They were investigating labor practices in facilities that were alleged to be sweatshops.
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"No more sweatshops or pollution havens stealing jobs from American workers," he has said.
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Pointing fingers at the most extreme examples of white-collar sweatshops will change nothing.
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His success shows that industrialisation is not just about vast sweatshops or belching chimneys.
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Cheap sweatshops were no longer to be the mainstay of the world's manufacturing hub.
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In-The-Know: Beyoncé's Ivy Park line refuted allegations that its factories are sweatshops.
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"They didn't burn they stuff when they said Nike was using sweatshops," Rel said.
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The manufacturing country is more known for its fast-fashion sweatshops than ethical craftsmanship.
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Last year 42 workers were rescued from slavery-like conditions in sweatshops in São Paulo.
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His mom worked in sweatshops her whole life in America, with no benefits and no holidays.
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Shenzhen, a city of migrants, has rapidly moved from sweatshops to advanced manufacturing, robotics and genomics.
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Strange as it sounds, there are places "where sweatshops are a dream" offering life-transforming wages.
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The bathers sing of airplanes and piña coladas, of the Chinese sweatshops that made their swimsuits.
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These are practices that we would not allow in sweatshops, yet [are] O.K. for folks serving time.
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Yes, we have sweatshops in LA; I've seen them with my own eyes and it's pretty dreadful.
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He had worked poorly paid immigrant jobs: long days in sweatshops followed by late nights in catering halls.
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Background ... Nike has been accused of using sweatshops since the '90s -- but began auditing its factories in 2002.
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Factory workers have been exposed to brutal working conditions akin to sweatshops that have driven some employees to suicide.
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And a January National Journal report found that Rouda sat on the board of a company connected to sweatshops.
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He also helped a number of businesses, like Hyundai and Samsung, accumulate vast fortunes while keeping workers in sweatshops.
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Gervais described Apple TV+ drama "The Morning Show" as "made by a company that runs sweatshops in China."93.
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It's quite a bit different than the sweatshops of the old days; the labor also requires a highly advanced skillset.
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Trade agreements and economic shifts have sent the good paying union jobs they once held to sweatshops in developing countries.
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In an October 2014 Wired story, Adrian Chen documented the work of front line moderators operating in modern-day sweatshops.
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The idea is that, however squalid the working conditions of sweatshops are, they usually provide the very best jobs around.
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In the 1990s, when people protested Nike's use of child labor and sweatshops, then-CEO Phil Knight publicly changed course.
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More retail news: A former employee tells the NY Post that Amazon warehouses are "cult-like" sweatshops run by robots.
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You were inspired by a protester in Georgetown who was worried about the sweatshops that created the sweatshirts at Georgetown.
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Traffickers operate in all 50 states, all around us, hiding in plain sight: in sweatshops and hotels, brothels and truck stops.
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Needless to say, the line of apparel was quickly disbanded and Gifford has pledged her life to the dismantling of sweatshops.
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A few days later, I accompanied authorities on several raids and learned that there were sweatshops behind some of those windows.
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For example, forcing a company to shut down its sweatshops might not be the best option if it leaves workers unemployed.
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Well, I would not be visiting some of those sweatshops that I saw in Bangladesh and Vietnam, which were just appalling.
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There's the movement to look at sweatshops and that's been helpful, but not to the extent that it has happened to food.
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She doesn't care that the sandal was undoubtedly made in a sweatshop (unlike you, who only buys clothes from high-end sweatshops).
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Another surprising, and controversial, suggestion within effective altruism is that boycotting sweatshops in the developing world often does more harm than good.
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But the Bangladesh apparel industry has also been rife with sweatshops — among the grimmest ever, anywhere — and with them come industrial accidents.
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For them, the wages and conditions in sweatshops might be appalling, but they are an improvement on people's less visible rural poverty.
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It was a protest against the controversial use of sweatshops to manufacture memorabilia for the Diamond Jubilee and London Olympics in 2012.
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Believing that winning the vote would help that fight, they carried signs demanding equal pay for equal work and an end to sweatshops.
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With sneaker manufacturing so tied to sweatshops in Asia, companies like Adidas and Nike have long downplayed the origin stories of their products.
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DoneGood is currently working with hundreds of companies and social enterprises that make high-quality goods — no sweatshops or harmful pollutants in sight.
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The same young immigrant women who worked in sweatshops like the one depicted in An American Tail helped jumpstart the US labor movement.
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They were working in bazaars, cafes and sweatshops or just loitering around, waiting for their parents to return from their hard day's labor.
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Her mother, Raissa Goodman, supported the family at first by making handbags in sweatshops; she became a translator for the Voice of America.
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Around the world, thousands of poorly-paid employees churn out fake goods in secret sweatshops while unscrupulous bosses reap the rewards from consumer demand.
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When it became clear that employers were exploiting their productivity, the labor movement formed to protest abuses like sweatshops, child labor, and poverty wages.
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By the 1950s, these warehouses were mostly being used for storage or sweatshops, and the neighborhood, increasingly decrepit, earned the nickname Hell's Hundred Acres.
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You can easily imagine how many more widgets these gleaming new factory floors could produce per unit of labor input, compared to low-cost sweatshops.
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Just 27 miles outside the country's capital city of Dhaka, it's a far cry from the common images of backwater sweatshops of the Global South.
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For example, some cybercriminals have farmed out Captcha-breaking schemes to electronic sweatshops where humans are used to decode the puzzles for a tiny fee.
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I started working on this book in 1999, and there were a certain set of concerns there regarding sweatshops and labor abuses and so forth.
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The video "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" portrays refugees and immigrants from around the world in camps, garment sweatshops, fruit-picking fields and crowded trains.
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His strongman presidency ushered in a period of breakneck growth and development, but also harsh working conditions in South Korean sweatshops and increasing repression by the state.
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" The regulator also said internet platforms were like "sweatshops," accusing them of exploiting users "for their attention, ideas and data in exchange for so called 'free' services.
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The director's story begins with cofounding the Downtown Community Television Center, where he used scrappy video equipment to expose sweatshops and chronicle labor struggles in New York.
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To find out how many Londoners were poor—and why—he and his squad of investigators accompanied policemen on patrols, and conducted interviews in pubs and sweatshops.
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Now, you'll lose 4 points for the same actions (by inadvertently supporting sweatshops, pesticides, and one CEO who committed crimes against an ill-fated racehorse and many people).
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But on the flipside, as technologically savvy employers take advantage of the online people rush, could unregulated digital labor markets lead to exchanging physical sweatshops for digital ones?
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In 2016, the label faced claims brought forth by British tabloid The Sun that the athletic-wear line was produced in sweatshops where workers were unprotected and underpaid.
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Growing up in New York as the child of Chinese immigrants who had to work in sweatshops and restaurants, Wu never asked his parents for a sneaker allowance.
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For a bit of insight into how economic booms and globalization have affected other countries, check out this gorgeous, tragic new documentary about South Korean sweatshops, Bikini Words.
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Last month, Giovanni Buttarelli, the EU's top data watchdog, blasted internet "sweatshops," saying that some of their proposed changes don't go far enough toward correcting exploitative data collection.
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The dancers may benefit from the backstories, explained in the program notes, of sweatshops and the ravages of global capitalism, but what matters to us is the dancing.
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The "sweatshops" label clearly hits on something true: These factories are more dangerous than other places to work, and don't pay enough to make up for those risks.
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Related: A Twitter Bot Is Generating Fantastic New Words An Army of 3D Printers Immortalizes the Words of Gabriel García Márquez Learn the Depressing Vocabulary of '70s Korean Sweatshops
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Another project, Meld, was an idea for a software that optimized clothing patterns, making production more sustainable and less labor-intensive, especially in countries with a proliferation of sweatshops.
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That man, Ramón Morales, arrived at Harvard in 1972 by way of El Barrio, the Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords and a mother who toiled in sweatshops.
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Tougher labor and environmental standards can help to level the playing field by reducing the likelihood that American jobs will be replaced by jobs in sweatshops in developing countries.
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Op-Ed Contributors In the 1990s, Americans learned more about the appalling conditions at the factories where our sneakers and T-shirts were made, and opposition to sweatshops surged.
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The activist worked in sweatshops in early 20th century New York and worked her entire life to better the lives of working-class women, before going onto found Women's Day.
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Related: Huge Floating Lantern Will Carry Refugee's Memories from the Korean War Learn the Depressing Vocabulary of '70s Korean Sweatshops Demonic Geishas Wrestle Ghoulish Reptiles in These Anime-Inspired Murals
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The law dates to 2008, when China had a reputation for sweatshops staffed by underpaid workers, an embarrassment for a ruling party that monopolized power in the name of socialism.
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His loft was at the corner of Broadway and Houston, on the top floor of the Cable Building, then a den of sweatshops, later the home of the Angelika Theatre.
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Forever 21, as I learned when I was going around the sweatshops in LA, was one of the companies that was taking advantage of the underground workforce in Los Angeles.
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The installation provides no new information about the horrors of sweatshops, but the frivolity of video games and sun dresses hanging nearby call on viewers to make an ethical judgment.
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Speaking in Anaheim, California, on Tuesday, Sanders rounded on Disney over how it treated its workers, accusing the company of underpaying staff, outsourcing jobs overseas and using "sweatshops" to make toys.
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The nondescript factories and sweatshops of old are giving way to modern-style campuses with amenities such as free Wi-Fi, television lounges, cleaning services and even options for upgraded dorms.
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Narrated by Martin Sheen, an actor and left-wing icon, the film tours communities that have suffered from competition with Chinese imports, juxtaposing shuttered American factories with shots of Chinese sweatshops.
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Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.
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That is the sort of thinking that paved the way from their great-grandparents' sweatshops and farms into their parent's law firms and medical practices in just a few short generations.
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Related: Learn the Depressing Vocabulary of '70s Korean Sweatshops Robot Artists Compete for Thousands of Dollars at This Painting Competition Watch a Robotic Arm Keep a Toy Train on an Infinite Loop
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In Brazil, the textile industry is fragmented and informal, with thousands of immigrant subcontractors from Bolivia and Paraguay sewing clothes in small shops - some of them sweatshops - for well-known national retailers.
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Both have, also, been problematic faves: Bjork's liberal use of the n-word in reference to sound and music, as well as the utilization of sweatshops for Beyoncé's athleisure apparel, Ivy Park.
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Labor activists say many of its factories have improved from the blatant sweatshops that prevailed in the 1990s, prompting companies like Nike to impose monitoring and compliance standards on suppliers in Vietnam.
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The camera didn&apost pan to see Cook&aposs expression after the "sweatshops" remark, but it did show him smiling directly beforehand in reaction to Gervais&apos praise of "The Morning Show."
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Both have, also, been problematic faves: Bjork's liberal use of the n-word in reference to sound and music, as well as the utilization of sweatshops for Beyoncé's athleisure apparel, Ivy Park.
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Satyarthi, credited with rescuing over 80,000 children from India's brick kilns, stone quarries, carpet factories, circuses, sweatshops and farms, said he was deeply disturbed after visiting refugee camps in Turkey, Germany and Italy.
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United Students Against Sweatshops, for example, has expanded from its focus on the workers who make college apparel overseas to successful campaigns for a $15 minimum wage at New York University and Columbia.
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"It is exactly women like the ones in these pictures that are worst affected by our industry: poor wages and terrible working conditions in sweatshops that manufacture clothing for many western brands," she continued.
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In one of the more bizarre moments of the 2016 Oscars, Chris Rock brought out three (impossibly adorable) kids of Asian descent and used them to make a joke about China and Chinese sweatshops.
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We laugh off ecstasy-fueled soulmate encounters in the same way that we snigger at the Valentine's Day aisle at the local convenience store, stocked full of "I Love You" bears made in sweatshops.
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It's also relevant that, like the Trump administration's callous immigrant child separation policy, Zara has a questionable record with children, since some appear to have been found working in Brazilian sweatshops making their clothes.
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Sansone later took jobs in grimy sweatshops to organize workers for the garment workers union and attended the Rand School of Social Science and the New York School of Social Work, both in Manhattan.
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Neoliberalism has brought us the global supply chain, where fast fashion is sewn by women in sweatshops in Cambodia and Bangladesh, out of sight and mind from the women who will ultimately wear the clothing.
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Prato's sweatshops turn imported cloth into cheap garments with "Made in Italy" labels, easy to sell throughout the EU. The bulk of the proceeds are dispatched to China in defiance of anti-money-laundering controls.
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Despite efforts by two different coalitions to improve the safety of garment factories in Bangladesh, sweatshops are still operating there and globally, cutting every corner they can to make you clothing as cheaply as possible.
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Dithhi Bhattacharya, executive director of charity Center for Workers' Management, said it was an accident "waiting to happen", blaming a government failure to clamp down on illegal sweatshops that employ people in slave-like conditions.
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"Fast fashion" behemoths, with their landfill-choking wares and dependence on sweatshops, feature in the most alarming sections, but Thomas, a longtime fashion journalist, also inspects the unsustainable offshoring and cost-cutting habits of smaller companies.
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SWEATSHOPS in the back rooms of Indian family houses; Mexican families paying their servants cash; Nigerian teenagers hawking DVDs in the street: all are in the "informal economy", buying and selling beyond the ambit of the state.
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"They will find sweatshops abhorrent, slave labor a brutal, terrible thing to be happening in their neighborhood, and the news that a 16-year-old has been knifed to death in London will shock them," he added.
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China's labor law dates to 2008, when China had a reputation for sweatshops staffed by underpaid workers, but some now say that labor protections hamper much-needed economic adjustments that will benefit workers in the long run.
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The reason companies do not feel free to poison us, sell us spoiled meat, lock our daughters in sweatshops, employ our children in coal mines is not because companies experienced a moment of Zen and decided to evolve.
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In a widely discussed report by The Sun, it's been alleged that Ivy Park is made in Sri Lankan sweatshops, where seamstresses working 9.75 hour shifts five days a week make the equivalent of only $6.18 a day.
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In 1984, he moved his studio to a building on Grand and Centre Streets, which was formerly occupied by a fraternal organization called the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but by the '80s was mostly full of sweatshops.
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Elite liberals stress two sources of identity: being a good global citizen (who cares about climate change and sweatshops in Bangladesh) and belonging to an identity group that has nothing to do with the nation (Hispanic, gay, Buddhist, etc).
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Immigrants, risking their lives in a time of sweatshops and child labor, organized labor unions devoted to lifting the tired, and poor and huddled masses – with the fiercest grit, they shouted so all could hear: America, we will rise.
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Over one million Syrian children live in Turkey, and thousands of them, like Ahmad, are in sweatshops, factories or vegetable fields instead of in a classroom, members of a lost generation who have been robbed of their youth by war.
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The European Union's top data watchdog likened internet platforms that collect user data to "sweatshops" that "[farm] people for their attention," as the tech industry prepares for stringent new privacy laws set to go into effect in Europe later this month.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of migrant workers in India are at risk from accidents like the factory fire that has killed 43 people in New Delhi, campaigners said on Monday, urging the government to clamp down on illegal sweatshops.
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According to a widely quoted study published earlier this decade, the value added on the mainland to Apple's iPods (nearly all of which are assembled there) represents less than 5% of the total, reinforcing the stereotype of Chinese factories as low-end sweatshops.
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The price tag - $90 (66 pounds) - reflects the cost of a slave today, the '40M' logo refers to the estimated 40 million people trapped in slavery and the insoles feature pictures of sweatshops where forced labor is considered to be rife globally.
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As a result, Indonesian apparel workers have been cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two decades or so as they work in sweatshops that subcontract their labor out to a wide array of well-known global brands.
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"Apple rolled into the TV game with a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China," Gervais said as the camera panned to Apple CEO Tim Cook in the audience.
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But by boycotting slave-produced commodities, Lay pioneered the politics of consumption and initiated a tactic that would become central to the ultimate success of abolitionism in the 19th century, and one that still motivates global movements against abuses like sweatshops today.
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We have learned that Indian coders engineered much of the software powering the MAX in offshore coding sweatshops as part of a campaign to make inroads in Airbus-dominated India, where one airline proceeded to order $607 billion worth of Boeing jets in 607.
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"Patrick Pizzella's extreme anti-worker record—including lobbying for sweatshops on the Northern Mariana Islands—is why I opposed his nomination in the first place, and that's why President Trump needs to quickly nominate someone with a clear record of standing up for workers," she said.
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Among the attacks: accusing one California Democrat of being "shady" by enriching himself on Chinese "sweatshops," calling an Illinois Democrat a "corporate con man," alleging that a New Jersey Democrat lobbied for "terrorist rights" -- and tying several to Republicans' favorite target: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
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Things had started to sour for her on her first night in Hong Kong, awaiting my arrival the next day: at a youth hostel, housed in a building full of sweatshops, rats had gnawed through her leather bag to get a piece of cheese she'd left inside it.
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When I stop and think about what I am giving money to—an industry that has driven women to eating disorders, which in some cases relies on sweatshops to create their garments, which has been historically racist on the runway—I don't know that I feel okay doing that.
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Nike became a lightning rod for criticism about shoddy practices by multinationals in the mid-1990s and early 2000s when it was accused by non-governmental organisations such as Oxfam and Global Exchange of tolerating sweatshops and child labour in its factories and among its suppliers in several Asian countries.
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For instance, when New York State prohibited the manufacture of cigars in tenement sweatshops—apartments rented by employers where families lived in one room filled with drying tobacco, and everyone, including children, rolled cigars—the court reversed the law, arguing that it deprived the worker of his property and personal liberty.
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While China is moving up the value chain and the government is keen to replace sweatshops with hi-tech firms, Beijing also faces serious economic and social challenges in creating jobs for its 270 million migrant workers – whose average age in 403 was 38.6 years while only one in four had made it to high school.
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Shuri in "Black Panther," also appears, but she doesn't have many lines.) The plot is slight: A shady island tycoon named Red (Nonso Anozie) tries to prevent Deni from putting on a music festival, reasoning that if people go see the young man perform that night, they're liable to skip work at Red's sweatshops the next day.
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Read more: Ariana Grande is suing Forever 221 over ads she says featured 'a look-alike model' wearing her signature hairstyleI've been discouraged from shopping at Forever 22016 since I learned about its ties to sweatshops and climate changeDespite Forever 213's various controversies, I wasn't truly discouraged from shopping there until I learned that the chain has long been accused of exploiting workers and harming the environment.
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But once women's marital rights were expanded (in, for example, the Married Women's Property Act of 18703) and labor reforms extended to children, who worked long hours in mines, factories and sweatshops, the image of "the archetypical female poisoner who operated in an impoverished domestic setting" gave way to a new image of "the educated middle-class male" — a "gentleman" who, it should be noted, was more likely to murder for profit than from the pain and passion that motivated women.
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According to legend, the eighth-century Buddhist master Guru Rinpoche flew to this location from Tibet on the back of a tigress, but Helen takes a 737 from Kansas City, Mo. The fossil fuels burned on this trip damage the natural environment; the food that Helen eats on the plane is prepared by underpaid workers and supports industrial agriculture; the clothes she wears and the seats she sits on were made in sweatshops; the airline itself is part of an enormous multinational conglomerate.
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Nearly all of the major figures who enabled this integration through reidentification, who went down like Moses into the rail yards, packing plants, and sweatshops, and brought socialism to America, were Jews: Daniel De Leon (1852-1914), a Sephardic immigrant from Curaçao and the forefather of industrial unionism, became the leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America and a three-time failed candidate for governor of New York; Samuel Gompers (1003-1924), an immigrant Jew from England who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor; Victor L. Berger (1860-1929), an immigrant Jew from Austro-Hungary, who founded the Social Democratic Party of America, converted Eugene V. Debs, who had been a Democratic member of the Indiana General Assembly, to socialism, and became the first socialist elected to the House; Morris Hillquit (1869-1933), a Jewish immigrant from the Baltics, who co-founded the Socialist Party of America and was a two-time failed candidate for the mayor of New York City and representative of New York's 9th congressional district—Sanders's birth district; and Saul Alinsky, the Chicago-born codifier of community organizing, who influenced Sanders's grassroots-collectivization campaigning (and, parenthetically, served as the subject of Hillary Clinton's undergrad thesis).
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