Many expected that North American would be reduced to a McJobs economy buying the output of sweatshops located in Far-East dictatorships. |
Saipan has served as a haven for Asian Pacific sweatshops for major US retailers. |
They are found in road-building gangs, in quarries and brickworks, on plantations and in sweatshops. |
It is estimated 70 per cent of garment workers are women, working in factories, sweatshops, or as homeworkers. |
They move among us, half-noticed and nameless, dressed in the discount off-the-rack couture of the South Asian sweatshops. |
As governor, he introduced a number of reforms regulating child labour and preventing abuses in sweatshops. |