Stop Sweatshop Labor Exploitation!
Sweatshop labor is work that's done in an environment of exploitation. In sweatshops, workers are underpaid, overworked, and abused.
Most people like to think that sweatshops are a thing of the past, that when labor unions came into being, worker exploitation became a thing of the past.
Unfortunately, while some fair labor standards exist within the United States, they hardly exist at all in some other countries. Big corporations that used to exploit workers here in the United States have now taken their production overseas. That's right - these corporations are so dedicated to squeezing as much profit out of workers as possible that they're willing to leave the United States in order to do it - or hire some other company outside the United States to do their dirty work for them. It's called sweatshop outsourcing, and it's an immoral business practice.
This lens focuses on the practice of sweatshop labor, and on the work of those who are doing what they can to revitalize the sweatshop-free economy here in the United States.
Most people like to think that sweatshops are a thing of the past, that when labor unions came into being, worker exploitation became a thing of the past.
Unfortunately, while some fair labor standards exist within the United States, they hardly exist at all in some other countries. Big corporations that used to exploit workers here in the United States have now taken their production overseas. That's right - these corporations are so dedicated to squeezing as much profit out of workers as possible that they're willing to leave the United States in order to do it - or hire some other company outside the United States to do their dirty work for them. It's called sweatshop outsourcing, and it's an immoral business practice.
This lens focuses on the practice of sweatshop labor, and on the work of those who are doing what they can to revitalize the sweatshop-free economy here in the United States.
Sweatshop News
Alerting you to the role of sweatshop labor in our society
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byIs Your Liberal T-Shirt Truly Liberal?
Shirts made in sweatshops overseas aren't liberal, no matter what they say
Sweatshop Labor Links
Educate yourself about sweatshop labor, and buy sweat-free!
T-shirts Black With Outsourced Sweat
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Hanes and Sweat Shops
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Skreeened!
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Irregular Apparel: Ethical Shirts for Men, Women, Kids and Babies
Irregular Apparel is the clothing store with progr more...2 points
Is Alternative Apparel Really Sweatshop Free?
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Sweat Free Shirts
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No Sweat Shirts
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SweatShop Watch
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Barack Obama Shirts Made in the USA
Plenty of places offer Barack Obama t-Shirts, but more...1 point
Eshopone Menswear
Top Quality Mens Suits, Jackets, Trousers, shoes a more...1 point
Resume building
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Students for Labor Justice
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Ethix Supply
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No Sweat Apparel Bad for the Environment - Choose American Apparel Instead
Dependence on fossil fuel pollution makes No Sweat Apparel a dirty company
It's a real disappointment to find out the truth about No Sweat Apparel. Not at all the small, friendly operation they create the image of being, No Sweat Apparel is actually part of a big multinational corporation that is willing to use nasty tactics to pick on the little guy.
Furthermore, as we think about buing ethical clothing, we need also to think about more than just labor conditions. Social consciousness needs to focus on the growing crisis of global warming and the pollution of our atmosphere... by businesses like No Sweat Apparel.
You see, one thing that No Sweat Apparel cannot tell you is that its shirts are made in the USA. They're aren't. No Sweat Apparel has outsourced jobs that could be held by Americans, turning its back on American workers. No Sweat Apparel has its clothing made through outsourcing in factories in places like Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Bangladesh and Indonesia are not known for the environmental friendliness of their factories, but No Sweat Apparel doesn't have to follow American environmental regulations with the factories it gets its clothes from, because they're outside the United States.
Furthermore, every single shirt from No Sweat Apparel is transported from the far side of the planet using polluting fossil fuels. Every time you buy from No Sweat Apparel, you help make global warming WORSE. That makes No Sweat Apparel a very unethical choice.
Almost no economic activity is free of impact upon the environment, but we can make good relative choices. Take, for example, the shirts sold on Skreened, the organic shirts you see for sale below. They're from American Apparel, which makes all of its clothes right here in the United States.
Furthermore, as we think about buing ethical clothing, we need also to think about more than just labor conditions. Social consciousness needs to focus on the growing crisis of global warming and the pollution of our atmosphere... by businesses like No Sweat Apparel.
You see, one thing that No Sweat Apparel cannot tell you is that its shirts are made in the USA. They're aren't. No Sweat Apparel has outsourced jobs that could be held by Americans, turning its back on American workers. No Sweat Apparel has its clothing made through outsourcing in factories in places like Bangladesh and Indonesia.
Bangladesh and Indonesia are not known for the environmental friendliness of their factories, but No Sweat Apparel doesn't have to follow American environmental regulations with the factories it gets its clothes from, because they're outside the United States.
Furthermore, every single shirt from No Sweat Apparel is transported from the far side of the planet using polluting fossil fuels. Every time you buy from No Sweat Apparel, you help make global warming WORSE. That makes No Sweat Apparel a very unethical choice.
Almost no economic activity is free of impact upon the environment, but we can make good relative choices. Take, for example, the shirts sold on Skreened, the organic shirts you see for sale below. They're from American Apparel, which makes all of its clothes right here in the United States.
Examples of Shirts Made With No Sweatshop Labor
Made in the USA, by American Apparel
Sweatshop Warning About ArtsNow!
ArtsNow isn't just stuff made in China - Its HQ is in China
Warning for online merchandisers looking to supplement their collections on CafePress, Zazzle, and Skreened: Beware ArtsNow.com. ArtsNow.com does not just sell some items made in overseas sweatshops. ArtsNow.com is itself a Chinese operation, with headquarters and factory in China itself.
China has a terrible record of human rights abuses and sweatshop labor. Please, don't sell through ArtsNow.com.
China has a terrible record of human rights abuses and sweatshop labor. Please, don't sell through ArtsNow.com.
Books About Sweatshops
Read up on the dirty truth behind America's slick corporate surface
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 11/16/2009) 
Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 11/16/2009)
Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 11/16/2009)
Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 11/16/2009)
At Issue Series - Child Labor and Sweatshops (paperback edition)
Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 11/16/2009)
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