Directory of Sweatshops Resources

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• CISPES Anti-Sweatshop Campaign

  http://www.blank.org/sweatgear/cispes.html
  Compares historic U.S. sweatshops and exposes sweatshops in Central America, focusing on El Salvador

• Clean Clothes Campaign

  http://www.cleanclothes.org/
  Organization focused on improving working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry worldwide. Topics includes codes for manufacturers, working conditions, news, publications, and profiles of specific companies.

• Co-op America: Sweatshops

  http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/
  Aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, and international human and labor rights.

• Fair Labor Association

  http://www.fairlabor.org/
  Works with major corporations to improve human rights through agreements with clothing retailers to set minimum anti-sweatshop standards.

• Garment Worker Center

  http://www.garmentworkercenter.org/
  Organization dedicated to organizing and empowering garment workers in Los Angeles.

• Maquila Solidarity Network

  http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
  Activists organizing "Maquiladora" factories to improve conditions, win a living wage, and campaign against multi-national corporate abuse.

• MicroRevolt

  http://www.microrevolt.org/
  Promotes knitting as a form of anti-sweatshop protest. Offers an application that generates knitting patterns of corporate logos.

• National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

  http://www.nmass.org/
  NMASS is aimed at fundamentally transforming the sweatshop system according to the needs and human rights of working people.

• SweatFree Communities

  http://www.sweatfree.org/
  Organization working to end sweatshop exploitation by inspiring responsible local purchasing and fostering solidarity between U.S. communities and workers worldwide.

• Sweatshop Journal

  http://www.soc.duke.edu/courses/soc142/shop1.html
  Minnie Roe conducted an undercover, investigation to report a U.S. firm's sweatshop practices.

• Sweatshop Reform

  http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/sweat.htm
  Hearts and Minds nonprofit site. Offers analysis and current links on how the harsh sweatshop conditions stimulate public reactions.

• Verité

  http://www.verite.org/
  Verité is an independent non-profit organization monitoring international labor rights abuses in off-shore production sites.

• Worker Rights Consortium

  http://www.workersrights.org/
  Holds corporations accountable to supporting worker rights by enforcing codes of conduct.

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