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 ...

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 ...

Sweatshops are the archetype of worker mistreatment in the developing world. They counteract the modern belief that workers of any stripe are entitled to fair compensation, safe working conditions and ...

re sweatshops the symbol of Uncle Sam’s exploitative fingers under the disguise of globalization? Or are they the saviors of the downtrodden around the world? Ever since the U.S. economy globalized, ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 66, No. 2/3, The 11th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics (Jun. - Jul., 2006), pp. 261-272 (12 pages) Today's sweatshops violate our notions of ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about "labor standards," I'd like to offer them a tour of the vast garbage dump here in Phnom Penh. This is a Dante-like ...

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 ...

The Brown Bookstore's recent cancellation of its merchandising contract with Nike has returned to prominence the debate over low-wage labor in developing countries. The cancellation stemmed from ...

In Theory: What's our responsibility toward sweatshops? In the early part of the 20th century, American automobile manufacturers increased their profit margins by hiring ethnic labor from the American ...