| A sweatshop is a factory where the workers do long hours for low pay, they may have to work in uncomfortable or dangerous conditions. |
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| How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity? |
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| For the pittance they're paid, adjunct profs at our colleges might as well be sweatshop workers. |
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| Can we sleep easy at nights knowing that people are being paid sweatshop wages for our benefit? |
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| A US garment factory where workers are unionized is not likely to be a sweatshop. |
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| The former argued that unfettered free trade contributed to sweatshop labour in the Third World. |
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| Working conditions vary widely from the worst kind of sweatshop to factory complexes with clinics, schools and entertainment. |
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| On Tuesday police rescued child workers from a sweatshop operating in the Manila suburb of Binondo. |
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| This applies not just to military frontlines, but also to welfare lines, police line-ups, or even stitching a hemline in a sweatshop. |
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| We'll speak with an author who says corporate America is run like a sweatshop and workers can hardly keep up. |
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| There's probably a sweatshop in Bombay that can churn out neocon drivel at a far brisker pace and for less than 50 cents an hour. |
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| Brand awareness should be a stepping stone to more concrete action, like opposing sweatshop labour, but it's not an end in itself. |
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| For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture. |
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| They wanted to try to get some action done on sweatshop labour and the products that the university purchases. |
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| Marina Gutierrez is one of very few women in Central America who has organized a sweatshop into a union shop, and not just once, but three times. |
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| If I threw out every item suspected of sweatshop involvement I'd be left with a woolly jumper hand-knitted on the Aran Islands. |
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| McDonald, Colin Brunton and others did time at celluloid sweatshop SC Communications. |
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| And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor. |
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| Later, as a sweatshop, it had supplied clothing and blankets to hospitals. |
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| A group that pressures colleges not to sell apparel made with sweatshop labor had similar experiences. |
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| The carbon emissions and sweatshop labor of their Black Friday sales will be sung to passersby. |
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| He keeps claiming that his company is socially responsible and they don't use sweatshop labor. |
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| For example, in the mid-90s, there was his pathetic equivocation on the issue of Nike using Asian sweatshop labor. |
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| Suryakant took a job as an unskilled labourer and Jayaben as a sewing machinist in a Harlesden sweatshop. |
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| He has a shore job in some sweatshop trying to make enough money so he can pay off his first car loan. |
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| Rather China would be subjugated and perhaps torn apart by American, West European and Japanese imperialism, transformed into a giant sweatshop. |
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| You can have a small sweatshop as well as an ethical business and regulation is there to support the latter, not the former. |
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| Their ultimate goal is to reduce China to a giant sweatshop under neocolonial subjugation. |
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| Many of these workers are home-based with little or no job security, low wages and often labour in sweatshop conditions. |
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| In it she investigates how corporations have colonised our cultural space and exposes the sweatshop economy that props up some popular consumer brands. |
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| Following the tragedy, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney spoke out against overseas, sweatshop production. |
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| As well, more than 30,000 Canadians, our Commission included, signed a petition asking the federal government to establish a taskforce on sweatshop production of footwear and apparel. |
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| Is it not also in the name of competition that young people are being led into sweatshop working conditions which will be extended to all workers? |
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| For instance, students in many North American universities and colleges have campaigned to stop their institutions from purchasing clothing produced by sweatshop suppliers. |
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| Why can't rich Westerners decide what is good for foreign sweatshop workers and call for laws to bring that about? |
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| The MSN is also one of the founding members of the Labour Behind the Label Coalition, which focuses on the growing problem of sweatshop abuses in the garment industry, both in Canada and internationally. |
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| Mr. Alleruzo summarized the main points of the Canadian campaign for a federal taskforce on sweatshop abuses, now endorsed by over 30,000 signatures and 200 organizations. |
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| Maybe it isn't a sweatshop, but that's certainly the word being bandied around at the moment. |
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| The joint Oxfam-Maquila Solidarity Network campaign against sweatshop labour is one such example, where active public participation is a strategic lever for changing legislation and corporate conduct. |
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| She tackled issues of campus diversity and foreign sweatshop labor. |
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| The view presented in much of the capitalist media and echoed by the reformist left that China is one giant sweatshop for light manufacturing for export is false. |
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| Sweeney made a plea to understand clearly the objectives of the code, which in his view was not to raise standards across the board in apparel, but rather to eliminate the worst examples of sweatshop abuses. |
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| With the aim of gathering material for her writing, she worked at various times as a waitress, as a nursemaid, and in a sweatshop, and she made a sea voyage to Europe in steerage. |
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| When we have companies that want to slash health and safety standards, defy any environmental guidelines and pay their workers sweatshop wages, it is tough for the good companies to compete. |
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| If such maquiladora projects are to be the model for Haiti's economic future, they will simply create future generations of sweatshop labor at subsistence wages. |
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| A literal sweatshop, this jerry-built structure is at once concrete, fantastical, and metaphorical, its ricketiness no contradiction of the grinding realities it indexes. |
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| Sure, sweatshop work is tedious, grueling, and sometimes dangerous. |
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| Sweatshop monitoring groups say other areas handicapped by geography and poor infrastructure, like Swaziland, saw nearly half their factories closed. |
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| Just four years after opening Sweatshop, in Denver, CO, Brian Young's competitive dance company is making waves on the competition scene. |
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