| Retailers and brand-name licensers of merchandise made in sweatshops where children are employed also fit into this category. |
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| They are found in road-building gangs, in quarries and brickworks, on plantations and in sweatshops. |
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| Many expected that North American would be reduced to a McJobs economy buying the output of sweatshops located in Far-East dictatorships. |
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| Thus, the fight against sweatshops is defined in this context as a struggle for physical improvement of workplaces. |
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| It is estimated 70 per cent of garment workers are women, working in factories, sweatshops, or as homeworkers. |
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| Instead of sweatshops and child labor there would be unions and literacy programs. |
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| Two weeks ago, Farias's office participated in 81 raids of sweatshops that employ immigrant labor. |
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| Saipan has served as a haven for Asian Pacific sweatshops for major US retailers. |
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| They move among us, half-noticed and nameless, dressed in the discount off-the-rack couture of the South Asian sweatshops. |
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| They strategized about how best to finance delegations to overseas sweatshops and about how to build alliances with workers' rights groups. |
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| Are you careful not to buy products that are mass-produced by low-paid workers in third-world sweatshops? |
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| China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer. |
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| The program featured images of women and children working long hours in sweatshops making sneakers. |
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| Third world workers want to toil in sweatshops, recognizing that it improves their prospects. |
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| The existence of sweatshops in Hong Kong is directly attributable to the Cold War. |
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| They can be found on farms and plantations, and in factories and sweatshops. |
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| As governor, he introduced a number of reforms regulating child labour and preventing abuses in sweatshops. |
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| It is unfortunate that the movement against sweatshops is usually led by anti-capitalists. |
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| Women staff the maquiladoras and the sweatshops that produce the cheap goods of the global economy. |
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| Higher oil and raw material prices have also forced factory sweatshops to further slash the impoverished wages and conditions. |
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| If we listen to some of the speeches from the other side of the House, we get the impression that some of these workshops are sweatshops. |
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| Hundreds of other Asian women are believed to be virtually imprisoned in similar conditions in illegal clothing sweatshops. |
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| Morris could see neither of these in the use of machinery in the Victorian factories and sweatshops that surrounded him. |
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| A reputation for running sweatshops may damage a brand, and thus hit sales. |
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| Should clothes be geometrically designed and factory-manufactured to minimise individuality, or be handsewn to rebuke capitalist sweatshops? |
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| It has become increasingly unpopular in the United States, Australia and other westernized countries to import goods from countries with sweatshops. |
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| Most would have only been able to raise a deposit and would be forced to pay off the rest by working as virtual slave labour in restaurants and sweatshops, or as prostitutes. |
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| Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions. |
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| Cotton cloth was turned into garments by poorly paid, predominately female workers in the sweatshops of the East End of London or by unwaged housewives for their families. |
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| Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel. |
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| It is an attempt to preserve fairly-paid jobs in Europe, and to prevent chain stores reducing prices by buying from countries that accept sweatshops and sweated labour. |
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| Western concern at the plight of workers in sweatshops is touching. |
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| Illegal immigrants from China are trafficked by organised crime and held in debt bondage and indentured servitude in sweatshops and restaurants. |
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| In the 1990s, Nike's sweatshops weren't the worst in the business, but they're the ones that got the negative publicity. |
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| Adidas has its own version of slaves working to make such goods – in the form of low-paid workers in sweatshops. |
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| Victims are also forced to work as migrant farm laborers, on construction sites or in sweatshops. |
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| Anyone who has been to China has seen the mills, mines and sweatshops there. |
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| In France there are Chinese children sent illegally and forced to work in sweatshops to refund their travel. |
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| Truckers in turn allocated sweatshops and jobbers among themselves, swapping them back and forth or selling them outright. |
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| Children are also trafficked to work in domestic service, and children under 14 have been found working in garment sweatshops. |
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| As well as being musically inclined, he also campaigns against child sweatshops. |
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| She will analyse the structural causes in modern forms of slavery, such as children working in sweatshops. |
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| Chinese migrants are trafficked for labour purposes and forced to work in local sweatshops. |
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| These plants were not sweatshops like the crowded ill-lighted factory lofts in which garment workers of the United States, the United Kingdom, and western European countries once worked 12 and 14 hours a day. |
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| Last week, our ambition to compete in the global race was airily dismissed as a race to the bottom, that it means competing with China on sweatshops and India on low wages. |
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| Moreover, if it means greater profit, as in the low-wage garment industry, capitalists will readily revert from automated, capital-intensive methods to labor-intensive sweatshops that look much as they did a century ago. |
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| In east Asia, some labor organizers use anonymity to reveal information regarding sweatshops that produce goods for western countries and to organize local labor. |
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| The term 'child labour' is usually applied to children working in factories, mines, sweatshops, and other organised places of wage employment created by industrialisation. |
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| No matter how awful we might consider the sweatshops of the developing world, if hundreds of people are queuing to get those jobs, it is obvious that whatever the alternatives are must be worse. |
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| In addition to managing households, many women toil in sweatshops, farms, factories, marketplaces, mines and offices and do so largely in the absence of supportive policies, laws, institutions and services. |
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| Some are trafficked and forced to work in prostitution and sweatshops, or needlessly deprived of parental care and forced into early marriage, or subjected to violence and abuse in the home, school and community. |
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| However, these calls for laws and regulation fail to view sweatshops in the proper historical perspective. |
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| Today, piece work and sweatshops remain closely linked conceptually, even though each has continued to develop separately. |
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| Adidas has been criticized for operating sweatshops, particularly in Indonesia. |
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| Victims are forced into prostitution or forced to work in quarries and sweatshops, on farms, as domestics, as child soldiers, and in many other forms of involuntary servitude. |
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| Let me state right from the start that these are not sweatshops. |
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| Environmental racism also extends to the exploitative work environment of garment district sweatshops, the microelectronic industry and extraction industries. |
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| But it also covers the systematic exploitation of children in sweatshops and factories in the very heart of our cities or in the slum areas which surround them. |
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| The Asian-Americans added language barriers, sweatshops, and isolation. |
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| Covert hacktivist collective Anonymous has hit out at Telegraph columnist Marth Gill for her article linking their Million Mask March with sweatshops in Brazil. |
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| United Students Against Sweatshops is fighting to protect the rights of the workers. |
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| A campaign has been initiated by United Students Against Sweatshops calling for universities to cut contracts with Adidas. |
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