For decades, the worldwide apparel industry has been dominated by a world of oppressive factories and management taking advantage of their employees. In an effort to keep factory costs low and company ...

Correction: Follett and Nike are not members of the Worker Rights Consortium. An earlier version of this story was incorrect. The head of a labor rights group at the center of an effort to ensure ...

The University has vigilantly demonstrated its commitment to social responsibility, as has recently been demonstrated by the release of the slavery and justice report. The report, which pivots around ...

The Student Labor Alliance urged students to end sweatshop labor for collegiate apparel at a teach-in presentation last night. About 25 students, mostly SLA members, attended the event in Salomon 001.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Mutually beneficial exchanges in markets can be exploitative because one party takes advantage of an underlying injustice. For instance, ...

University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials say they don't know where the T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats bearing the Husker name are made. Instead, the university and athletic department rely on a ...

It's not exactly a secret the fashion industry as a whole has a long history of labor abuses and poor working conditions when it comes to garment workers. Though many may think the industry has ...

SMART Alabama LLC, a subsidiary company majority-owned by Hyundai, denied a report that it knowingly employed underage workers, RadarOnline.com has learned. The company told Reuters it relies on ...

Right now, students need your help campaigning against a contract that brings clothes made in a sweatshop straight to the NYU ...

Sweatshop labor and the lack of concern or transparency about global labor practices were not a common, explicit topic in the main storylines of major U.S. 1980s primetime TV shows, which tended to ...

This edition of "Better Beauty" explores the fashion industry's history of labor abuses. A new law could shift the U.S. into resolution. It's not exactly a secret the fashion industry as a whole has a ...