Search The Directory The Web for Home > Society > Issues > Business > Human Rights > Sweatshops New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Anti-Sweatshop Labour League - The ASSL provides support, references, ideas and information to stop sweatshops.   Antisweatshop Labour League - Group on yahoo that exchanges ideas and energy to publicize and end sweatshop practices.   Battling Sweatshops - Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.   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.   Blood, Sweat & Shears - Resources on Corporate Watch showing evidence or investigation of sweat shop practices, worldwide.   CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign - Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador   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, various Policy Issues and more.   Campaign for Labor Rights at Duke - March, 1998 Duke University's "Sweatshop" standard is linked closely with the demand for factory disclosure plus a stipulation that the university has the right to send independent monitors to inspect conditions and labor practices in those factories.   Child Slave Labor News - Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.   Fair Labor Association - Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.   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.   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.   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."   Kathie Lee Gifford's Lesson - On April 29, 1996 Charles Kernaghan (labor movement's mouse that roared) very badly embarrassed Kathie Lee Gifford by telling a Congressional committee about conditions at Global Fashions, a Honduran factory that made her sportswear, where 5 year old girls earn 31 cents an hour and work 75 hour weeks.   LaborNet - Labor news, links to unions and other workers' organizations, and information about scheduled activism.   Maquila Solidarity Network - Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campain against multi-national corporate abuse.   Maquila Solidarity Network - Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campain against multi-national corporate abuse.   National Mobilization Against Sweatshops - NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.   No Sweat - Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.   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.     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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