In the case of sweatshops, people can vote with their pocketbooks. The point is, if sensitive consumers really are concerned about the rights of others, even those in other countries, they can try ...

One of the worst industrial disasters in the modern era took place in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed on April 24, 2013, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring some 2,500 ...

A review of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Student protests may be loud, but can factory workers hear them? Activists at 40 universities demonstrated last week to demand that their schools license college-logo t-shirts and other apparel only ...

Sweatshops may drive the financial prosperity of developing countries. According to a recent U.S. National Bureau of Economics Research study, garment factories were found to have unsafe conditions, ...

Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now. A garment worker works at a factory during a countrywide ...