Web Directory

» Battling Sweatshops
   Public Broadcasting Service on battling sweatshops ("Real Audio," is available. Written April 14, 1997 but still of use today.
   http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june97/sweatshops_4-14.html

» Behind the Label
   A multimedia online news magazine focusing on the brand names responsible for the global sweatshop crisis, and reporting on the personal stories of sweatshop workers around the world. Behind the Label represents the efforts of a global alliance of clothin
   http://www.behindthelabel.org/

» Big corpations scare museums: Sweatshop Exhibit Delayed.
   U.S. history of sweatshops continues to date. An exhibit was shunned and delayed, until Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance accepted it in late 1999.
   http://www.progress.org/muse08.htm

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

» Center for Civil Society and Governance
   Organization working to monitor and influence government policies and reform international markets. Campaigns focus on sweatshops and the conditions that create them.
   http://www.aed-ccsg.org/

» Child Slave Labor News
   Immaculata High School students newspaper on line. This page is about Saipan sweatshops and U.S. firms profiting from that.
   http://ihscslnews.org/

» Clean Clothes Campaign
   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.
   http://www.cleanclothes.org/

» Co-op America: Sweatshops
   Aims to end sweatshops and child labor; supports fair trade, and international human and labor rights.
   http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/

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

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

» Liberation Ink
   A worker-owned apparel printing and design collective created to fund social justice organizing. Site offers sweatshop-free printed t-shirts and accessories for sale.
   http://www.liberationink.com

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

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

» National Labor Committee
   Organization focused on human rights abuses and sweatshops. Provides articles and news releases detailing developments in the anti-sweatshop community.
   http://www.nlcnet.org/

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

» No Sweat
   Provides campaigns against sweatshops and child labor, in the UK and around the world.
   http://www.nosweat.org.uk/

» SWEAT: A Story of Solidarity
   Independent documentary film about the lives of Nike factory workers in Indonesia.
   http://www.sweatthefilm.org

» Salon News: Sweatshops
   Tom DeLay, is characterized as a defender of sweatshops. "The GOP whip thinks that American companies using underpaid garment workers in distant Saipan is just fine." By Jeff Stein in Salon E Magazine, February, 1999.
   http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/04news.html

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

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

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

» Thai Labour Campaign
   Covers labor disputes, worker rights campaigns, as well as labor law in Thailand. Provides original research on migrant workers and sweatshops in South East Asia.
   http://www.thailabour.org

» United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
   An intervarsity coalition devoted to stopping sweatshop labor. Action alerts, discussion forums, and links to past advocacy campaigns provided.
   http://www.unionvoice.org/studentsagainstsweat/

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

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