Maine

Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign:  A model for many other clean clothes campaigns.  Bangor was the first U.S. community to sign a Clean Clothes Resolution.  Up and running for four years, the website is very comprehensive.

Maine Center for Economic Policy:  Website maintains articles and publications from MECEP concerning the economy of Maine.

Southern Maine Clean Clothes Campaign: Lists ten reasons to care about the source of the clothes you wear.

Student Organizing

United Students Against Sweatshops: Wonderful site for college campus organizing.  Additional resources include a critique of the Fair Labor Association, organizing materials, and university codes of conduct.

Union Sponsored Sites

UNITE -- Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees:  Pages include ways for workplaces to unionize, a list of unionized companies that produce consumer goods, teaching units for school-aged children, and information on where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on sweatshop issues.

AFL-CIO Sweat Free: A portal to other sites.  Many valuable links.

Sites Sponsored by Other Groups

Global Exchange:  Information about fair trade and campaign information for specific companies and countries.  Also connects groups to speakers in a range of sweatshop issues.

Maquila Solidarity Network:  Includes information on specific campaigns (Nike, Gap, Phillips Van Heusen, etc.) as well as general organizing information.  Accessible in Spanish and English.

Feminists Against Sweatshops: Lots of interesting information about women and sweatshops.  Includes a comprehensive and informative FAQ on sweatshop labor.

Sweatshop Watch:  Includes "What Can I Do?" and a valuable list of links.  Many articles concerning sweatshop conditions and abuses.

Human Rights Watch:  This organization's webpage contains initiatives to end the suffering of sweatshop workers, farm workers, child workers, and others.  Extensive archive of articles on everything from land mines to war crimes.

European Clean Clothes Campaign:  Links to other clean clothes campaigns, information about manufacturers, codes of conduct, and other valuable resources.

NikeWages:  Can an Indonesian Nike factory worker really survive on $1.25 (US) a day?  A team of Americans invested in human rights issues have traveled to South East Asia to live on less than two dollars a day to find out.  The website chronicles their journey and findings.

Campaign for Labor Rights:  Organization mobilizes grassroots activism through e-mail alerts.  Site also contains a huge listing of sweatshop and labor documents.

National Labor Committee:  Includes information on wages of apparel workers worldwide as well as sweatshop information on specific countries and companies.

History

Triangle Fire Website:  Documents the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 147 people in 1911, most of them young women.  Includes oral histories, reprints of newspaper articles and a list of the victims.

Governmental and Monitoring Organizations

US Department of Labor:  Contains information about U.S. sweatshops.

Fair Labor Association:  Government's response to the proliferation of sweatshops.  The FLA is composed of representatives of non-governmental organizations, colleges, and apparel manufacturers.  For another view of the Fair Labor Association click here.  You will need Adobe Acrobat or another PDF reader to view the document. 

Worker Rights Consortium:  United Students Against Sweatshops' response to the proliferation of sweatshops. The WRC doesn't allow industry representation in its monitoring efforts and has more stringent requirements for factories.

Verite:  Monitoring agency.  Verite was chosen to be the independent monitor in a settlement when Saipan workers sued the manufacturers they worked for for back wages and terrible work environments. Website gives a comprehensive look at monitoring.