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 ...

On a special episode (first released on January 18, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: The term “fast fashion” brings to mind factories spitting out enormous volumes of clothing using cheap fabric and ...

Cornell’s vibrant labor activism presents a consistent narrative: Vast multinational corporations exploit the world’s poorest people, subjecting them to the modern equivalent of slavery, while, at the ...

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 ...

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

Last Friday, the Brown Student Labor Alliance held a rally in front of University Hall to demand that the University administration eliminate the use of sweatshop labor in the manufacturing of Brown ...

Canadian universities must take action to ensure decent work for garment factory workers who make their students’ hoodies.

Homebody, a unique clothing store downtown, sells only sweatshop-free, fair-trade certified, and handmade items. Owner Margaret Breslau opened the store five years ago in hopes of promoting positive ...