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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. |
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Maine Center for Economic Policy: Website maintains articles and publications from MECEP concerning the economy of Maine. |
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Southern Maine Clean Clothes Campaign: Lists ten reasons to care about the source of the clothes you wear. |
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Student Organizing |
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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. |
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Union Sponsored Sites |
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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. |
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AFL-CIO Sweat Free: A portal to other sites. Many valuable links. |
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Sites Sponsored by Other Groups |
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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. |
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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. |
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Feminists Against Sweatshops: Lots of interesting information about women and sweatshops. Includes a comprehensive and informative FAQ on sweatshop labor. |
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Sweatshop Watch: Includes "What Can I Do?" and a valuable list of links. Many articles concerning sweatshop conditions and abuses. |
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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. |
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European Clean Clothes Campaign: Links to other clean clothes campaigns, information about manufacturers, codes of conduct, and other valuable resources. |
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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. |
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Campaign for Labor Rights: Organization mobilizes grassroots activism through e-mail alerts. Site also contains a huge listing of sweatshop and labor documents. |
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National Labor Committee: Includes information on wages of apparel workers worldwide as well as sweatshop information on specific countries and companies. |
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History |
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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. |
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Governmental and Monitoring Organizations |
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US Department of Labor: Contains information about U.S. sweatshops. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |