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 ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - When Margot Alarconciles woke up one morning last year and found her son sick with what appeared to be a cold, there was little she could do but wrap him in an extra blanket, ...

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 ...

“People over profit,” the rallying cry for a growing movement of protests against sweatshops in emerging markets, illustrates a fundamental misconception of modern supply chains. It assumes that ...

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.

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 ...

While the Northern Marianas Islands are a U.S. territory, they are exempt from the usual American laws regulating minimum wage, tariffs, quotas and immigration. Yet clothing sewn in the sweatshops ...

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 ...

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 ...