Sweatshop Greed

Unions and community activists have also increased their visibility.

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In New York and Los Angeles the needleworkers' union, UNITE, has held many public demonstrations, increased its organizing activity, and has engaged in an innovative community organization program. Activists and concerned citizens seeking to curb sweatshop production have copied some of the tactics pioneered in the fight against racism in South Africa. Beginning in the late s, many institutional and individual investors battled apartheid by divesting the stock they owned in companies doing business in South Africa.

Today, several mutual fund companies offer "socially responsible" investment portfolios that do not include companies involved in sweatshop production. Religious groups are also involved in the fight against sweatshops. For example The Los Angeles Jewish Commission on Sweatshops came together in an effort to attempt to capture the conscience of the Jewish community by making connections between present day Jewish garment company owners and the experiences of Jewish immigrants years earlier.

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While many companies in the apparel industry have been reluctant to admit that there is a problem with sweatshops a growing number have been moving towards instituting codes of conduct. Since then, the practice has become more common in the garment industry. Workplace monitoring is one way to ensure that contractors abide by manufacturers' codes of conduct. While the importance of El Monte and the prevalence of sweatshops is hotly contended the public awareness of problems through media coverage has been greatly increased. Some industry representatives suggested the situation has been blown out of proportion.

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Others wonder whether it was just the tip of the iceberg. As was the case 90 years earlier following the Triangle fire some of the efforts at reform will bring about real change while others will fail. Is It Getting Better? When we began working on this exhibition, we expected to be able to answer this simple question. We assumed that we could determine how much clothing sweatshops produced and how many people they employed.

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There are no simple answers. Depending on their source, estimates of the number of garment sweatshops in the United States vary greatly. In , the U.

Department of Labor estimated that out of 22, U. No one knows for sure.

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A usually small manufacturing establishment employing workers under unfair and unsanitary conditions. General Accounting Office, It is wrong to value fashion when we do not value the people who make fashion real.

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Sweatshops reflect too vividly how we as a nation feel about the weakest among us. And it is such an 'underground' problem that there is no definitive source on how many sweatshops operate in this country. But we know this: One is one too many. Secretary of Labor, Only greed combined with a disregard for human misery can justify the use of sweatshops to create luxury goods.

Donald Trump ran for President on a platform that criticized China for stealing American jobs and promised to bring those manufacturing jobs back. Well, at one time the U. The company failed through bad management and lousy marketing, not its business model.

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A newly-launched clothing factory located in "Trump country" would no doubt find plenty of workers. Sure, there'd be less margin for Ivanka but unless the company is very badly managed, the brand would remain profitable. Heck, if there were a problem, Ivanka could raise prices to compensate. They're luxury goods and thus not particularly price-sensitive.