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Smithonian sweatshop exhibit - Graphics intensive historical review of sweatshops in America.
 
Southern Maine Clean Clothes Campaign - Organization in solidarity with the worldwide campaign seeking justice and dignity for apparel workers. Portland, ME.
 
Stop Sweatshops - Current news, information and resources from anti-sweatshop organization.
 
Students Against Sweatshops - San Diego State chapter of SAS, offering links to sweatshops around the globe. Plus cartoons, articles, and minutes from local meetings.
 
Sweat Shop accountability - U.S. Retail trade group takes position against products of sweatshop labor being sold by member stores.
 
Sweating the big stuff - Anti-sweatshop efforts on U.S. college campus; "activism is trickier than bra-burning." Salon Books review.
 
Sweatshop Reform - Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.
 
Sweatshop Journal - Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.
 
Sweatshop Watch - Sweatshop Watch is a nonprofit coalition working to eliminate sweatshops in the garment industry. See reviews of this and similar web sites in Open Directory's "Society: Organizations: Labor."
 
Sweatshops.org - Co-op America's Sweatshops.org aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, international human and labor rights.
 
Sweatwash - The Apparel Industry's Efforts to Co-opt Labor Rights - Perhaps inspired by corporate lies on the environment, U.S. administration and mulitinational corporations now push "Sweat Free" labels for clothes. Abuse of children is monitored by the local firm itself. Therefore, "Sweat Free" labels are like posting "fat free" on McDonald's food.
 
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - The history of the 1911 fire in a US garment sewing shop, which set off the introduction of new legislation and regulations on safety issues and workers rights in the textile industry. Links to original documents, and related web sites.
 
US Dept of Labor - Entitled, "No Sweat," site aims to help end sweatshop conditions for U.S. workers
 
Unite - Fire Triangle - March 25, 1911, the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City took the lives of 146 workers. These workers were mostly young, female immigrants who came to the United States seeking freedom and found poverty and horrifying working conditions instead. Rallies now held each year in N.Y. Contacts to rallies here.
 
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) - United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is an coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor, on the personal web site Jeff and Kari. Not updated but they have several links not available elsewhere.
 
Universities enable Sweatshops - Students Blast University Labor Code as Too Weak "This Code is a sham," said Todd Pugatch, a member of the University of North Carolina chapter of USAS. "This Code will put a university stamp of approval on factories paying starvation wages," said Tico Almeida, a Duke student and USAS member. Released Dec 2, 1998
 
Verité - Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.
 
Wal-Mart Confronted - Charles Kernaghan's small organization was featured in The Providence Journal-Bulletin. Entitled: "Activist targets Wal-Mart factory conditions,"wants to make sure that foreign workers are treated and paid fairly." By Brian C Jones, Staff Writer Friday, June 19, 1998.
 
 
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