As Colleges Profit, Sweatshops Worsen. Matthew Kauffman and Lisa Chedekel.
by Kauffman, Matthew; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 48Business. Publisher: Hartford Courant, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Clothing factories | Clothing trade | Clothing workers | Logos (Symbols) | Sweatshops | Universities and colleges | University of Connecticut | Work environment -- MexicoDDC classification: 050 Summary: "At factories across the globe, young women hunch over sewing machines in choreographed monotony, racing the clock for poverty wages as they stitch shirt that will be shipped to the States and emblazoned with five letters: U-C-O-N-N." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article reveals that college-licensed apparel is still being made under sweatshop conditions despite an academia "pledge to wage war against the sweatshops that produce college-licensed apparel, propelled by a student protest movement that swept campuses with a passion not seen since the 1960s."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: As Colleges Profit, Sweatshops Worsen, Dec. 12, 2004; pp. A1+.
"At factories across the globe, young women hunch over sewing machines in choreographed monotony, racing the clock for poverty wages as they stitch shirt that will be shipped to the States and emblazoned with five letters: U-C-O-N-N." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article reveals that college-licensed apparel is still being made under sweatshop conditions despite an academia "pledge to wage war against the sweatshops that produce college-licensed apparel, propelled by a student protest movement that swept campuses with a passion not seen since the 1960s."
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