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sweatshop: see sweating system sweating system, method of exploiting labor by supplying materials to workers and paying by the piece (see piecework ) for work done on those materials in the workers' homes or in small workshops (sweatshops). ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| NO COLLEGE PRESIDENT IN HIS right mind would want apparel bearing his school's logo made in a sweatshop. In the summer of 2006, 14 college anti-sweatshop activists from United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) went to 12 countries to gather evidence to convince universities to writing sweeping demands into the multimillion-dollar contracts they sign for college-logo apparel (http://www. Robert Ross's Slaves to Fashion tells the story of the transformation from an America that had for all practical purposes banished the sweatshop to history books to one where hundreds of thousands labor under sweatshop conditions both abroad and at home. |
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