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An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums,
and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/
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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
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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/
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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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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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Anti-Sweatshop Labour League
The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.
http://www.geocities.com/whydoyoukeepdeletingme/ASSLLeague.html
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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No Sweat
Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
http://www.nosweat.org.uk/
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Verité
Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in
off-shore production sites.
http://www.verite.org/
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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/
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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
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Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop Watch is a coalition to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
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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
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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
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Smithonian sweatshop exhibit
Graphics intensive historical review of sweatshops in America.
http://www.si.edu/nmah/ve/sweatshops/start.htm
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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
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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/
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High Tech Sweatshops
Corpwatch says, "...high tech industry (uses) thousands of low-paid, mostly immigrant women,
who assemble the nuts and bolts of our computers using hundreds of toxic chemicals."
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/gallery/sweat/index.html
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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