Strange as it sounds, there are places “where sweatshops are a dream” offering life-transforming wages. Particularly for women. Factory work has historically offered women an escape hatch from ...

Stephen Rausenbush, of the state Bureau of Industrial Relations, said statewide there were 200,000 men, women and children working in sweatshops. They were run in both large cities and rural ...

What’s the “indispensable role”? That some so-called community representatives commit harrowing abuse upon Asian women in their community? That our elected representatives provide cover for such ...

Tolani, Serrano and Khan said harsh conditions in some factories don’t represent sweatshops as a whole, and generalizations shouldn’t be made. “My mom works with a lot of women who work in ...

As a child, Sheikh worked up to 20 hours a day in a sweatshop in Nepal stitching fabric ... With a loan, she opened a business in Kathmandu – Local Women’s Handicrafts – selling handmade ...

After 42 years of running the SweatShop Health club -- a women-oriented workout center at Selby and Snelling -- Winegar, 69, is retiring and and has sold the building to Paster Properties.

who announced an anti-sweatshop plan with Gifford by his side. Noam Chomsky and other activists credited Mr. Kernaghan as a primary catalyst for the movement, as did publications like Women’s ...

This year's cause célèbre was the campaign to end the use of sweatshop labor by the $2.5-billion collegiate apparel industry. Undergraduates nationwide demanded their colleges quit the Fair Labor ...

“You can hang naked pictures of women everywhere but when you do the ... Last August, Winegar sold the two-level SweatShop building — also home to the Rose Street Patisserie café and bakery ...