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National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.
http://www.nmass.org/
Maquila Solidarity Network
Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campain against multi-national corporate abuse.
http://www.web.net/~msn/
Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed.
U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.
http://www.progress.org/muse08.htm
Battling Sweatshops
Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html
Holiday Season of Conscience
National Labor Committee-sponsored project to inform holiday shoppers and socially responsible investors about sweatshop labor and other corporate abuses.
http://www.nlcnet.org/hsc/
Campaign for Real, Equitable Economic Development (CREED)
Anti-sweatshop group which sponsors the NY CISPES Traveling Sweatshop Theater, a dramatization of sweatshop conditions. Provides event calendar and information about immigration, neo-liberal economics, and labor activism.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/creed.html
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/
CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign
Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador
http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
Sweatshops.org
Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights.
http://www.sweatshops.org/
Salon News on sweatshops
Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1999/02/04news.html
Stop Sweats
Nonprofit devoted to stopping Sweatshops Sections of site: (1) What is a Sweatshop? (2) What You Can Do?, (3) Teaching Resources, (4)Current Campaigns, (5) Students Against Sweatshops, and (6)Stop Sweatshop Links.
http://www.uniteunion.org/sweatshops/sweatshop.html
Sweatshop Reform
Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
Sweatshop Journal
Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
Farmington Area Citizens to End Sweatshops
Student led group working to support human rights issues at the level of retail stores. University of Maine at Farmington.
http://www.geocities.com/faces04938/
Verité
Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
http://www.verite.org/
No Sweat
Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
Thai Labour Campaign
Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.
http://www.thailabour.org/index.html
Sweat Shop accountability
U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
http://www.sweatshops-retail.org/
Maquila Solidarity Network
Offers resources on sweatshop conditions, independent monitoring and workers' struggles to improve working conditions and win fair wages, plus a "Stop Sweatshop" campaign.
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org
Olympic Living Wage Project
Human rights initiative designed and implemented to humanize Nike factory workers in Indonesia. Compares the wages of workers and owners. Offers photo archive, daily journal, worker basic needs research, and interviews plus background on the sweatshop issue.
http://www.nikewages.org
Anti-Sweatshop Labour League
The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
http://www.geocities.com/whydoyoukeepdeletingme/ASSLLeague.html
Feminists Against Sweatshops
This organization's page on sweatshops gives the background of sweatshops with focus on repression of women and children in their use.
http://www.feminist.org/other/sweatshops/sweatshops.html
Child Slave Labor News
Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
http://www.geocities.com/cslnews/
Fair Labor Association
Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.
http://www.fairlabor.org/
Clean Clothes Campaign
Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.
http://www.cleanclothes.org/
Campaign for Labor Rights
A labor organization which specializes in the struggles of workers in sweatshops. Provides labor updates on Nike, Disney, Guess, Child Labor (including the Rugmark and FoulBall campaign), Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, United States (esp. Farm Workers and Poultry Processing Workers), Youth and Campus Activism, and various Policy Issues.
http://campaignforlaborrights.org/
Campaign for Labor Rights: Duke Sets New Licensing Policy
A release regarding Duke University's March 1998 code requiring licensees to disclose information about factory conditions and reserving the right of the university to monitor working conditions and labor practices.
http://www.campaignforlaborrights.org/alerts/1998/duke_new_license.html
Behind the Label - You Can Make a Difference
A multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. Behind the Label represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothing workers, religious leaders, and students who are demanding human rights for sweatshop workers.
http://www.behindthelabel.org/
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