sweatshops

Describes American sweatshops during the Industrial Revolution, including their workers, their dangers, life in and out of them, and the role of organized labor and reformers in putting an end to them. Includes an annotated further-reading list.

A comprehensive history of sweatshops in the United States that exposes the dark side of the garment industry and the exploitation of its workers, and examines the decline and rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the clothing industry.

Examines the origins and history of student anti-sweatshop activism and its primary organization, United Students Against Sweatshops, a network of over 180 North American campus groups founded in 1998, discussing the movement's major successes and challenges, and looking at its links to the contemporary U.S. labor movement, feminism, and struggles for racial justice.

Presents a collection of sixteen essays that address issues of child labor, and discusses sweatshops and the anti-sweatshop movement, product bans on countries who use child labor, labor unions and consumer groups, and more.

Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village to live with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.

Focuses on the specific issue of child labor and sweatshops and offers a variety of perspectives, eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate this issue.

Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.

Contains seventeen essays in which the authors present a wide range of viewpoints on the issue of child labor and sweatshops; and includes a bibliography and a list of relevant organizations.

Taken from her small, impoverished Chinese village and forced to sew in a New York City sweatshop, thirteen-year-old Suyin is visited by the cranes with which she has a strange connection and learns she is the daughter of the Crane Queen, who needs her help.