My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the relations of exploitation. Much of this was initiated by Charlie Kernaghan of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.
If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.
Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty were as engaged as young students are in anti sweatshop campaigns, prison campaigns, etc., it would be a good thing.
