If you recall, in June Apple was under fire about allegations that their manufacturing facilities in China are working under sweatshop-like conditions. They launched a full-blown investigation into ...

Employees of one Valley store say their working conditions are like a sweatshop. The air conditioning has been out for months at the Chandler location of Factory-2-U, a discount retail store.

As Westerners demand cheaper goods, the use of so-called “sweatshops” abroad has rocketed. But the goods are cheaper because “ [t]he global proliferation of sweatshops has driven the income and ...

Mainstream economists wrongly dismissed the student-led antisweatshop movement of recent years, writes John Miller, a professor of economics at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Although these ...

The difference between heaven and earth : introducing Alta Gracia -- From factory favorite to fighter : human cost of the "Race to the Bottom" -- Risky proposition, unlikely alliance : founding a new ...

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 ...

On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,132 people and injuring over 2,500. We must address the continuing sweatshop conditions of clothing factory workers who still ...