Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on eliminating sweatshop exploitation in California's garment industry. We believe that workers should earn a living wage in a safe, decent work environment, and that those responsible for the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable. From the first-person perspective of Chinese workers, audiences witness where the workers live, and ultimately are exposed to what they call a bittersweet life.
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization, conducting investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe. Our purpose is to combat sweatshops and protect the rights of workers who sew apparel and make other products sold in the United States. The WRC conducts independent, in-depth investigations; issues public reports on factories producing for major U.S. brands;
NMASS (National Mobilization against Sweatshops) is a workers membership organization that was founded by young working people in 1996 in New York City. Now, in 2004, we have two Workers’ Centers one in Brooklyn and one in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and members and supporters all over the country. Some of us are injured workers fighting for our right to compensation and medical benefits
This book is an ambitious attempt to bring some of the great events from working class history to a new generation of youth. Paul Mason argues that as the working class in the “global south� has expanded, so new workers’ movements are emerging with strong similarities to those that arose during the first wave of globalization, which began in the 1870s.
