Above: More beneficiaries of free trade As I posted about in January, Nike is no longer allowing the Workers Rights Consortium to monitor its Vietnam factory, ending its tradition of.
Last week, when I reviewed Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton, one of the key points I hoped I made was how Beckert connects the exploitation of cotton upon the peoples.
In Out of Sight, I discuss how consumers need to understand how their clothes are made and the tremendous costs of not knowing that information. Of course, much of this.
The global production economy is obviously great for workers. Thank you Walmart, Gap, and Target for providing these workers in India jobs by contracting production out to the lowest bidder.
As we all know, most of our clothing is now made in Asian sweatshops. The clothing companies intentionally know as little as possible about the conditions of production. They contract.
What is life like in a Bangladeshi garment factory for women workers? It's not good. “What happened when you formed the union?” asked the interviewer from the Bangladesh Center for.
In the Progressive Era, the photographs of Lewis Hine brought the horrible conditions of child laborers in the United States into the sight of the middle class, helping to bring.
The Diplomat has a good piece on the benefits and the problems with international labor monitoring systems. In short, Uzbekistan is a major cotton exporter, the world's 5th largest. It.
