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- Bangladesh factory fire: brands accused of criminal negligence
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions & labour rights organisation, is calling for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh which killed over 100 workers.
- Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Cheap clothing proves far too dear
The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Global Dreams
Imperial Corporations and the New World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
It outlines how governments lose control of their countries' economic development as companies seeking profits fail to re-invest in communities.
- J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
This kit provides extensive background information on the organized boycott against J.P. Stevens and Company Inc. The boycott, now in its third year, was organized to bring wide attention to the unjust and dangerous working conditions in the 85 textile plants of J.P. Stevens. Over 45,000 women and men are employed by the multi-national corporation that operates mostly in North and South Carolina, U.S.A.
- Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The argument for sweatshops comes not only from “free market” ideologues but sometimes from voices of establishment liberalism. An argument against.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- No Sweat
Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
- The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Workers Solidarity Issue 2
June - August 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
February - April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
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