Robert J.S. Ross

An expert on the global garment trade, Robert Ross is a research professor of sociology at Clark University’s Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise.

How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops

How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Overseas Sweatshops

While feigning outrage at worker abuse in Bangladesh, the US government has been quietly supporting the same sweatshop factories used by Walmart and The Gap.

Jan 7, 2014 / Robert J.S. Ross and Foreign Policy In Focus

Sweatshop Police Sweatshop Police

The government is about to declare virtual disarmament against the lawbreakers.

May 8, 2007 / Robert J.S. Ross

Countdown in Managua Countdown in Managua

A river of people, 19,000 workers, packed ten or twelve across, pours slowly through a bazaar of hawkers toward the gates of the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, about a mile from M...

Aug 24, 2000 / Feature / Robert J.S. Ross and Charles Kernaghan

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