NEW YORK — Tragic as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was, the most definitive moment of Thursday’s all-day symposium honoring its centennial was an impromptu exercise that reminded guests just ...

Sweatshop labor and the lack of concern or transparency about global labor practices were not a common, explicit topic in the main storylines of major U.S. 1980s primetime TV shows, which tended to ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — Angelo State University is scheduled to host a guest presentation given by Dr. Benjamin Powell, director of the Texas Tech University Free Market Institute ...

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 ...

As Westerners demand cheaper goods, the use of so-called “sweatshops” abroad has rocketed. But the goods are cheaper because “ [t]he global proliferation of sweatshops has driven the income and ...

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 ...

Introduction -- The anti-sweatshop movement -- The economics of sweatshop wage determination -- Don't cry for me Kathie Lee : how sweatshop wages compare to alternatives -- Health, safety, and working ...