Sweatshops, particularly in countries such as Bangladesh, mostly employ women. Before the arrival of sweatshops these women had no work and no economic rights, mostly living in rural communities ...

Campaigners insist the women are being exploited and treated ... By US standards, the factories can be considered “sweatshops.” But for Sri Lankans, whose average income is less than $3,500 ...

Nasreen Sheikh was among a number of young girls and women subjected to modern slavery and started working in a sweatshop when she was only nine. “I don't know if the world can ever feel the ...

In one of the world’s poorest nations, sweatshops are paradoxically one of the bright spots in the economy. “For many of the women in these factories, this kind of work was the better option ...

She saw women working in sweatshop conditions and being denied their earned wages and benefits. She spent her career working to fix those problems. Under her leadership as Labor secretary ...

“In my interviews, women workers regularly raise three demands ... Krugman stopped writing much about sweatshops. By contrast, Kristof did continue to defiantly push his view through the ...

BISHKEK -- Thirteen Kyrgyz women have been "rescued from slavery" at a sweatshop in Russia, a police official in the Central Asian country says. Kyrgyz Interior Ministry spokesman Bakyt Seitov ...

Both tell the stories of Asian-born girls who immigrate to New York and are exposed early on to sweatshop conditions ... of stories about Indian Muslim women’s daily struggles with bothersome ...

As one of the Sri Lankan women working at the MAS Holdings sweatshop told The Sun, she and her sister left home in a remote village 200 miles away, where their father is a farmer, because the ...