More than 100 students, faculty and staff attended an open forum on worker rights issues last week to hear representatives from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) ...

The models sashaying down the aisle were young and gorgeous, but that wasn’t the point of this fashion show in San Francisco’s Swedish American Hall. Four Jewish organizations presented “Rags to ...

University of North Carolina and Florida State University students have put their rivalries aside and found at least one issue they can agree on. They have joined forces to call for an end to ...

The World Trade Organization protests, followed by similar acts around the world, were effective in highlighting the pervasive use of sweatshop labor by American corporations. And now, companies are ...

Introduction: Sweatshops are where hearts starve -- PART 1: THE FALL AND RISE OF SWEATSHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES: What is a sweatshop? -- Appendix I: Estimating the number of sweatshop workers in the ...

MONTPELIER — A group of southern Vermont high school students took their mission of eradicating sweatshops to the Statehouse Tuesday as they called on lawmakers to pass a bill prohibiting the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 1990s, Nike became controversial after complaints that its Southeast Asia-contracted shoe factories operated sweatshops ...