Richard Appelbaum

Richard Appelbaum, co-author of Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry, teaches sociology and global and international studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor

The University of California has thrown its weight behind an antisweatshop initiative on campus logowear, proof that conscientious consumers can humanize the forces of global capit...

Jun 1, 2006 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum

Students Confront Sweatshops Students Confront Sweatshops

With a new wave of activism against sweatshops sweeping college campuses, student interest in the morality of their clothing choices can set a standard for the rest of us.

Nov 10, 2005 / Feature / Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum

Letters Letters

SIZE DOESN'T MATTER... Washington, DC

Sep 2, 2004 / Peter Dreier, Our Readers, and Richard Appelbaum

SweatX Closes Up Shop SweatX Closes Up Shop

The pilot manufacturing factory for SweatX, the noble anti-sweatshop brand that aspired to prove that fully unionized and even worker-owned garment factories can thrive in a sea ...

Jul 1, 2004 / Peter Dreier and Richard Appelbaum

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