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Garment Worker Center
Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.
http://www.garmentworkercenter.org
Center for Civil Society and Governance
Organization working to monitor and influence government policies and reform international markets. Campaigns focus on sweatshops and the conditions that create them.
http://www.aed-ccsg.org/
Maquila Solidarity Network
Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
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/
MicroRevolt
Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.
http://www.microrevolt.org/
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
Sweatshop Watch
A coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. Includes FAQs, examples of abuse, action alerts, resources and current projects.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
Punk Rock Sweatshop
Anti-sweatshop resource dealing with t-shirt production and the punk music community. Links to sweat-free vendors, distros, and bands.
http://punkrocksweatshop.org
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.h...
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/
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
CorpWatch - Sweatshops
Listing of anti-sweatshop campaigns and developments from the position of corporate accountability.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=...
Sweatshop Journal
Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/sho...
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/studentsagainsts...
Verité
Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
http://www.verite.org/
SWEAT: A Story of Solidarity
Independent documentary film about the lives of Nike factory workers in Indonesia.
http://www.sweatthefilm.org
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/
No Sweat
Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
Liberation Ink
A worker-owned apparel printing and design collective created to fund social justice organizing. Site offers sweatshop-free printed t-shirts and accessories for sale.
http://www.liberationink.com
Behind the Label
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/
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/ja...
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/swe...
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/
National Labor Committee
An education fund in support of worker and human rights in Central America.
http://www.nlcnet.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/
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/
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/...
Anti-Sweatshop Labour League
The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
http://www.geocities.com/whydoyoukeepdelet...
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
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://ihscslnews.org/
SweatFree Communities
Organization working to end sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide.
http://www.sweatfree.org
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/
Worker Rights Consortium
Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.
http://www.workersrights.org
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