No to Global Sweatshops No to Global Sweatshops
New York's City Council is about to open a promising new front in the global struggle against sweatshop exploitation--a city procurement ordinance that requires decent wages and f...
Apr 19, 2001 / William Greider
Otto Reich, WRAP Star Otto Reich, WRAP Star
Otto Reich is the vice chairman of Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production or WRAP, a clothing-industry front founded about a year ago to undermine the growing antisweatshop move...
Apr 17, 2001 / Feature / Alec Dubro
My Nike Media Adventure My Nike Media Adventure
E-mail: more powerful than corporate ads.
Mar 22, 2001 / Feature / Jonah Peretti
Economists vs. Students Economists vs. Students
For more than two years, the antisweatshop movement has been the hottest political thing on campus [see Featherstone, "The New Student Movement," May 15, 2000]. Students have use...
Jan 26, 2001 / Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone
Sweating Out the Words Sweating Out the Words
CLARIFICATION: A sidebar to Debbie Nathan's February 21 "Sweating Out the Words," about The New Yorker's literary contest and the publishing and informatics industries (converting ...
Feb 3, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Debbie Nathan
A Nike Sneak A Nike Sneak
On January 11 Joseph Ha, a Nike vice president, sent what he thought was a confidential letter to Cu Thi Hau, Vietnam's highest-ranking labor official.
Mar 18, 1999 / Eyal Press