Sentences with word «sweatshop»

It's the kind of sewing machine they use in sweatshops in East Asia.

The blaze, which killed 146 workers — 123 of whom were women in their late teens and early twenties, mostly Jewish and Italian immigrants — helped shine light on the dark and dangerous world of sweatshop labor in New York City and ultimately brought about legislation aimed at improving garment factory working conditions.

Holy Cow clothing that is 100 % organic, hand - screened, and made sweatshop free with water - based, PVC - free, plastisol - free and phthalate - free inks.

No Sweat Apparel, on the other hand, can easily rail against sweatshops in developing countries.

The Otolith Group, named after the part of the inner ear that senses gravity and orientation, has produced work including a film depicting the making of advertisements for financial services in Mumbai with sweatshop workers producing goods under extreme conditions.

This act prohibits the «import, export, and sale of goods made with sweatshop labor»

They don't use sweatshop labor.

I'm not talking about something like Sweatshop which appropriates an existing game structure and paints a message across it: in Cart Life, like Braid and Immortal Defense, the mechanics bulge with meaning.

The one - percenters are ALWAYS looking for a place to recreate the era when U.S. citizens (many of them immigrants) worked like slaves on building railroads, when women were crammed like sardines into sweatshops in lower Manhattan, when mills and tanneries dumped toxic fluids into rivers and streams as they pleased.

You support charter sweatshops where teachers work 12 - 14 hours a day.

It's lovely to know you're buying a garment designed and made with care, and without sweatshop labour.

Between 1994 and 1998 — arguably the height of the Nike sweatshop scandal — the company's sales went from $ 3.8 billion to $ 9.6 billion.

That's right: People who love playing in online game worlds will buy game money over eBay from digital sweatshops in China instead of earning it.

Such were the circumstances in New York's burgeoning garment industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, where thousands of unskilled women immigrants toiled in stifling sweatshops for meager pay clocking twelve - hour shifts under unsafe and unsanitary working conditions.

I'm not talking about sweatshops, bribery of government officials, or cooking the books.

The two artists converted an old sweatshop in Soho into their studio and living space.

The company began moving production abroad in the early 1990s, around the same time that brutal conditions in overseas sweatshops started making headlines (Levi's figured in some of them, due to a scandal in Saipan).

It operates a factory in the Dominican Republic where its workers are paid a living wage, not sweatshop wages.

Students learn to despise free market economics in lessons about third - world sweatshops, «living wage» laws, the earnings of fast food workers and restaurant CEOs, and the «hidden» costs of meat production,» Velderman reported.

Coming out against parental benefits would be like mourning sweatshops and sexual harassment.

These moms (or dads, because they are out there) do not run sweatshops, so they could not possibly meet demand.

Our universities are places of learning, not academic sweatshops, and we need to get away from the idea that more can be delivered for less.»

Their garments are made with recycled, organic, and other sustainable fabrics, and without sweatshop labor.

With disturbing contemporary parallels to underground sweatshops today, this is a standout title for both research and classroom debate.

Their future includes: charters sweatshops, vouchers, privatization, union busting, no collective bargaining, a fleet of at will employees with high turnover and no pension costs.....

The riots waged against the WTO convention in Seattle in 1999 protested the use of corporate sweatshops, where low - wage laborers have literally worked their lives away while creating commodities for Western capitalist markets.

What I couldn't wrap my head around was this: How can a company that espouses Christian values also support sweatshop labor?

You can buy them in good conscience, as they are also sweatshop free!

I dream of a world in which clothing is more expensive across the board, but there are no more sweatshops anywhere, and no more slash - and - burn.

Klein's sweatshop exposé became an inadvertent case study of how a brand's value, if threatened, can compel a corporation to behave itself.

Federal legislation ended sweatshops back in 1938, but it didn't automatically end the belief that long hours of non-stop work create the most output.

Now, with sweatshop disasters there drawing international scrutiny, the business is looking for the next best place — perhaps South America or sub-Saharan Africa — where it can steer apparel buyers seeking workers to stitch clothing together for a few dollars a day.

But in pioneering and perfecting the global hunt for ways to produce clothing more quickly and cheaply, Li & Fung, which had $ 20 billion in revenue last year, has been described by critics as the garment industry's «sweatshop locator.»

Later, she and my mother moved to New York, where Grandma worked for years in various sewing sweatshops while caring for her daughter.

Now, of course, the majority of Reddit users are real, unless there's a secret underground complex of hundreds, maybe thousands of sweatshop web - surfers, playing the role of the millions of users that post to Reddit every day.

«There are roughly 150 factories in Vancouver I would consider sweatshops,» Gunaratna said.

So now they go where they can to work in small factories — often literally sweatshops — around Northwest Georgia.

sweatshops government should do their job and protect the businesses rights to enslave their employees.

Many of our goods are cheap today because they are produced in this new global sweatshop.

The rise of sweatshops everywhere has troubled the Christian conscience.

To sing under Shaw in the preparation of a major work is a privilege, an act of worship, a two - and - a-half-hour sweatshop session and an uplifting creative experience.