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	Dennis Kucinich on Sweat Shops
		It is time this country makes a priority of ending sweat shop conditions at home and abroad.
		To end sweat shop conditions, the global trade regime must be confronted.
		Because the 20-year resurgence of sweat shops has been the by-product of a well crafted campaign to enrich multinational corporations at the expense of employees, it will take a strong commitment and plan to reverse the free fall of workers.
	www.kucinich.us /issues/sweat_shops.php (572 words)

	Jefferson Review
		Instead, she now is able to be with her children in the evenings after working in the “sweat shop” and now can afford to feed them a healthier diet and even to buy them medicine when they are sick.
		The sweat shop jobs have meant a real improvement in the lives of these workers, their families, and others in their villages.
		In this case, Americans, who really are motivated by a desire to eliminate competition from workers in third world countries, can raise the issue of “sweat shops” and pretend to be righteous and compassionate toward those workers in third world countries, as they lead the protests that will cost those poor workers their jobs.
	www.jeffersonreview.com /articles/2003/030303/killer.htm (1043 words)

	Fashion Victims: Inside the Sweat Shops of Los Angeles - Asylum Forums
		Behind every one of these forbidding doors is a garment shop, where mostly undocumented immigrant workers toil away with scissors, sewing machines and industrial irons for poverty-level wages for up to 12 hours a day.
		Her shop is actually one of the better ones — it is unusually cool and light, and the workers seem to have few personal complaints about her — but it is still riddled with violations.
		Almost every shop is. In fact, the whole sector is a violation of civilised working standards that the state, with its handful of inspectors and sometimes uncertain legal framework, cannot document or regulate effectively.
	www.asylumnation.com /asylum/_r/showthread/threadid_10128/index.html (2612 words)

	Sweat Shops
		"Sweat shops" make cheap clothing for the US market while subjecting workers to inhuman conditions.
		A story on the radio the day before told of a sit-in demonstration by students at the university of Pennsylvania demanding that the university stop purchasing U of P logo clothing from companies that use Asian sweat shops.
		Interview local shop owners (on Haight St., for example) about their awareness of the labor practices of the companies and countries they buy from.
	www.geocities.com /gwhsteacher/history/sweatshops.html (464 words)

	Awareness needed to combat sweat shops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the situation for many workers employed in sweat shops in the Nicaraguan free zone.
		In Nicaragua, sweat shops are established in free zones.
		She said U.S. companies should also be made aware of the conditions in sweat shops.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/100796/sweat10796.html (660 words)

	maobi: Let's trade. We give tired masses to get sweat shops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was of the view that she would improve the world by taking a stand against retail outlets who manufactured their clothings or toys in sweat shops.
		She dreams of the days when her home (yes the one which is worse than the sweat shop) will see the much needed money that her old job stitching shoes brought in.
		A sweat shop where she could have worked upgraded to become a now vacant factory.
	maobi.blogspot.com /2004/12/lets-trade-we-give-tired-masses-to-get.html (1862 words)

	One of the Coolest Sweat Shops Information On the Planet! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If you love to shop and don’t mind paying attention to even the smallest details, mystery shopping may be of interest to you.
		After a day of mystery shopping the undercover shopper puts together a report that goes back to the management so that they can implement suggestions.
		Shopping at least for the first phases is made easier with a point and a click.
	www.softwareshoppingcart.net /sweat-shops.htm (577 words)

	Sweatshop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweatshops that employed low-skilled workers and immigrants.
		Originally, middle management would determine how much profit they could 'sweat' off the labor of others.
		These exploded in U.S. urban areas in the industrial revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweat_shop (1329 words)

	Hanes and Sweat Shops
		Sweat shop activism has only really taken off in the past 10 years and over that time there have been numerous reports of Hanes apparel, and other Sara Lee clothing, being made in sweatshops in various companies.
		The answer to that is no. Sweat shops do not pay a living wage - they do not pay enough for the workers to buy food and cover basic health care.
		Even companies who use sweat shops have admitted that sweatshop jobs are not, in fact, better than no jobs at all.
	www.she-net.com /nosweat/hanessweatshops.htm (931 words)

	Daily News Record : Sweat shops aid may soon be crime in New York State. (clothing trade) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Start / D / Daily News Record / January 15, 1988 / Sweat shops aid may soon be crime in New York State.
		Sweat shops aid may soon be crime in New York State.
		Read 'Daily News Record: Sweat shops aid may soon be crime in New York State.
	static.elibrary.com /d/dailynewsrecord/january151988/sweatshopsaidmaysoonbecrimeinnewyorkstateclothingt/index.html (184 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 027 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He did express the concern which we hear about a lot here and out in the general public as well about the sweat shops which are in existence in some third world countries and actually, regrettably, in Toronto and Montreal as well.
		Certainly, in third world countries there are quite a lot of sweat shops manufacturing products which we consume.
		It should be part of the vision for the country to correct those imbalances in the legislation, instead of rushing through and taking the ridiculous attitude of rushing through pieces of legislation at the last minute.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/3/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/027_2004-03-23/han027_1515-E.htm (610 words)

	Tech Sweatshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The great American corporate sweat shops are alive and well in spite of the swing from industrialization to technology.
		In fairness to Nike and to their American counterparts, these sweat shops of our current generation do appear to serve some need.
		Turnover in these sweat shops is abominably high....in many cases 200% in less than a year.
	www.creativeoptions.com /Gallery/SweatShops.html (1900 words)

	Alarming News: 'Sweat' shop? Not exactly
		Before we insist that these “sweat shops” be shut down, we ought to consider the disastrous effect those shutdowns have on the workers’ lives.
		Jake, I hear what you are saying but it sounds like a weak excuse to continue foreign sweat shops and buy their good without a conscious.
		The people, including young children working in sweat shops are being exploited because they are in poverty and have no choice except to let themselves be exploited.
	www.alarmingnews.com /archives/000155.html (1661 words)

	Why Shop? Week
		The Government Accounting Office estimated that in 1994, 4500 of the 5000 garment shops in Los Angeles were sweatshops.
		The term "sweating" refers to the pressure put on workers to increase output through setting ridiculously high quotas, enforced overtime (without overtime pay), and lack of ventilation, causing the workers to sweat.
		Sometimes subcontractors close up shop without paying their workers a penny for their long hours of labor.
	spot.colorado.edu /~shortk/whomakesit.htm (1059 words)

	BusinessPundit: Nike, Sweat Shops, And Free Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		i think the sweat shops suck it is not a good fair way to treat others it is plain out wrong.
		I think that to live in a world with sweat shops like Nike's is a major step backwords.
		Sweat shops are not only demoralizing but also affect our own economy.
	www.businesspundit.com /archives/000143.htm (730 words)

	Policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This Privacy Policy covers The Sweat Shops' treatment of personally identifiable information that The Sweat Shop collects when you are on The Sweat Shop's site, and when you purchase merchandise from The Sweat Shop.
		The Sweat Shop also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, The Sweat Shop cookie information and the page you requested.
		The Sweat Shop uses information for three general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain products, and to contact you about specials and new products.
	www.thesweatshop.com /policies.aspx (569 words)

	The Anything Forums -> Survey on Sweat shops for school... please reply
		For this term, I am doing public speaking and for my topic, i chose sweat shops (a shop or factory in which workers are employed for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions).
		In some areas, a sweat job might be the best job that a person can find, but that doesn't mean I like them.
		The sweat shop would be good for the business which owns it, but it is not good for the overall economy.
	anythingforums.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1715 (504 words)

	No Sweat -- Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel
		No Sweat defines the market for goods that support independent trade unions - the only historically proven solution to sweatshops.
		No Sweat is donating sneakers to the relief effort and offering opportunities for our customers to easily help out.
		As always, these products are produced in a good union shop - in this case from Jakarta, on the other side of Indonesia from Aceh.
	www.nosweatapparel.com (382 words)

	Fred Gaboury - Protest target child labor, sweat shops
		The rally and march, which began at the Walt Disney Theater near Times Square, was one of more than 30 actions in cities across the country as the campaign for making the 1997 holiday shopping season a "Season of Conscience" began in earnest.
		"We are calling upon people to shop with their conscience," Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the New York-based National Labor Committee, said in a speech frequently interrupted by cheers.
		half of all apparel shops in the country violate wage and hour laws and that sweatshops are out of control.
	www.pww.org /archives97/97-10-11-1.html (988 words)

	Animatedbuzz.com - BUZZ CUT - 'Disney and sweat shops'
		In a debate on the Animated Buzz forums over Mickey in the public domain, the attention turned to sweat shops.
		There really is no way to stop these companies from using sweat shops, and I know that's like the old "Well, if I stop littering, it won't make a difference anyway because everyone else does it" excuse, but it rings true.
		In the end, it's the individual's choice whether or not to work at these sweat shops.
	www.animatedbuzz.com /WB/20.html (650 words)

	No Sweat Shops Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They are usually not informed of, and are not able to exercise, their rights because of a range of factors such as the complexity of the contracting chain, isolation, language barriers, poverty, misinformation by employers, lack of child care, and so on.
		The No Sweat Shop label will inform shoppers that an item made in Australia was produced by workers under full Award conditions.
		The No Sweat Shop Information Campaign is an initiative of the Homeworkers Code of Practice Committee, which consists of the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia, the Australian Industry Group, the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union, the Australian Retailers Association and Australian Business Limited.
	www.converse.com.au /archives/opinion/nosweat.htm (992 words)

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	Imprint Online: News - Students tackle sweat shops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Waterloo students took a closer look at sweat shops on February 25, when activist Violeta Perez came from the Dominican Republic to speak about labour conditions in Free Trade zones and talk about her experiences in the labour rights movement.
		Because many workers did not want to risk their jobs by speaking out at work or lacked the time to attend distant union meetings, the need for an additional outside labour rights organization to represent their views had became apparent.
		As a result, "La Zonera" was created and Violeta began documenting the health risks, physical abuse, sexual assault and human rights violations occurring in sweat shops throughout the nation by visiting workers in their homes and neighbourhoods.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/030599/1News/news04.shtml (560 words)

	No Sweat
		No Sweat's work depends on support from everyone who agrees that we should force the sweatshop bosses to respect workers' rights.
		Every pound or dollar you can donate to No Sweat will help us to point the finger at the sweatshop bosses, and campaign for an end to sweatshops once and for all.
		No Sweat is working towards raising £2,000 for Batay Ouvriye, an organisation struggling for independent unions in Haiti.
	www.nosweat.org.uk (1449 words)

	LaborNET: Workers Online Live News Feed: League Blows Whistle on Sweat Shops
		Unions are on the brink of a ground-breaking deal with the National Rugby League that would guarantee popular sporting apparel is not produced under sweat shop conditions.
		Labor Council and the TCFUA have been campaigning for years to have head contractors, or peak bodies, accept responsibilities for actions carried out in their names and from which they derive profits.
		Sweat shops thrive when name manufacturers, retailers or national organisations wash their hands of arrangements further down the contractual chain.
	www.labor.net.au /news/2228.html (414 words)

	Meredith Ames: Sweat Shops and Stuff...
		It is not unheard of today that these harsh working conditions underpay their workers.
		Not so much in America, but certainly in other countries these "sweat shops" are still producing things we use everyday.
		The quote "Someone has to put the buttons on the gingerbread men," comes to mind when I think about these sweat shops, but I think that though a lot HAS been done to improve working conditions in America, a lot more still needs to be done.
	students.ou.edu /A/Meredith.L.Ames-1/2004/10/sweat-shops-and-stuff.html (227 words)

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		While in the hospital, Estella is described thusly: “She felt filthy, the coils of her neck etched with dirt and sweat”.
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	www.professoressays.com /term-papers/3333/mexican-sweat-shops.html (299 words)

	sweat shops - Musician Forums
		I think sweat shops are a terrible thing but for some reason I have no problem buying a pair of nikes or adidas.
		Parents have a few kids, they don't make enough to support them all, so they send their eldest to work in a sweat shop so they can have that meager amount of money to survive
		Since they don't have the education (the now adult that is) to get a better job to get that very much needed money, the send their OWN children to work in a sweat shop.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=105594 (1600 words)

	Native Americans Fight for Sweat Shops in Prison
		Native Americans gathered at the capitol to support a measure that would allow sweat lodges in state prisons.
		This would include requiring sweat lodges, pipes, sage, and lava rocks in maximum security penitentiaries.
		Native Americans say they want sweat lodges to be available to prisoners, but one representative doesn't think it will happen.
	www.mdn.org /1997/STORIES/INDIANS1.HTM (285 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ News Article
		Lawrence is co-chair of the Student Labor Action Coalition, an Oberlin student organization which is attempting to pass a formal proposal to end College purchasing of sweatshop apparel.
		The people working in sweat shops are mostly our age.
		Any campaign to address sweat shops will involve the whole campus.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1999.02.26/news/slac.html (595 words)

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