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 ...

Sweatshops should all be shut down because of the terrible working conditions and unfair treatment of workers, right? But what about the people who choose to work in these conditions? If we look at ...

As college students, it’s almost expected that we hate sweatshops and the companies that support them. We’re supposed to feel bad when we see “Made in Honduras” on the tags of our clothes. But what’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The African American Museum of Philadelphia opened a new exhibit this week that makes a haunting comparison between the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and modern day sweatshops.

Yesterday, we published a story about how students around the United States are gathering in front on Nike stores in solidarity with workers at a Honduras factory that have lost their jobs because ...

Garment industry sweatshops are hardly a thing of the past in New York City: They are a feature of commerce today. The New York State Department of Labor has found it necessary to maintain particular ...

CNN.com reports that a few days ago, Mexican authorities found 513 people packed into two tractor-trailer trucks who had paid $7,000 to be smuggled into the United States illegally. Why would they be ...

And, yes, part of the equation was the development of a strong labor movement in the country. In fact, standing in the crowd watching events unfold on that fateful day 100 years ago was a young lady ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

More than a thousand workers were killed in Bangladesh when a building used as a garment factory collapsed. It’s alleged that a factory in China making products for Apple has nets installed to stop ...

As a Brit I almost feel that I should apologize to you for John Oliver. Either that or for the state of our education system. For he has been through one of the better colleges in one of the finest ...