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Sweatshop
Information, Reflection and Action Packet
Sweatshop related websites
BehindTheLabel.org
A multimedia news website covering the stories of people working for fundamental human and labor rights in the global clothing industry
Between
a Rock and a Hard Place
Take a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of American History exhibit on American sweatshops from
1820 until the present.
Campaign
for Labor Rights (CLR)
Learn how the CLR mobilizes local support around sweatshop
and other labor issues with its partner organizations. It serves as a
connection between local activists and major organizations around the
world. There are descriptions of past actions, current alerts, and materials
to help you organize campaigns.
Clean
Clothes Campaign
The Clean
Clothes Campaign was launched in Holland in October 1990 and focuses attention
on reforming the labor abuses in the garment industry. They regularly
publish a newsletter pertaining to specific campaigns, policy updates,
and international sweatshop findings.
Community
Aid Abroad
This
website has updated information on Nike as well as articles
on child labor. Community Aid Abroad is the Australian Oxfam chapter;
it has many relevant links to
sweatshop reports and sites.
Co-op
America—www.sweatshops.org
Co-op
America's site has hundreds of resources and articles on sweatshops,
information on products that are sweatshop and child-labor free, the top
ten sweatshop victories, and descriptions of Co-op Americas Anti-Sweatshop
Action Campaigns.
Corporate
Watch
This
website comprises a very extensive database focusing on the impacts of
global corporate dominance.
Global
Exchange
This
organization approaches issues of social, economic and political justice
for people and sustainable development for their communities in several
ways. The sweatshop problem is only one of the issues they focus on. They
have ordering information on gifts made under humane working conditions,
urgent actions for public participation and tours that focus on providing
a true interaction with indigenous cultures worldwide. They also provide
updates on social and political issues.
International
Labor Rights Fund
In 1996,
the International Labor Rights Fund launched a campaign to end the exploitation
of child labor in the soccer ball industry. The children receive 30 cents
each for balls that sell for up to $75. In the fall of 1997, the ILO,
UNICEF and Save the Children Ð UK began an effort to move children
from soccer ball stitching to schools in Pakistan, where 70% of the world's
soccer balls are made. This site has information about the status of the
effort and suggested actions.
Rugmark
The Rugmark
symbol on a carpet informs the buyer that the rug was not made by exploited
children. A percentage of the import cost goes towards funding social
programs for children that give them a positive alternative to work
UNICEF
Child Labor
This
site stresses the inter-relationship between education and child labor
and seeks not only to eliminate child labor but also to establish the
means of providing children with basic education.
1216 NE 65th Street 
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: 206.223.1138 Fax: 206.223.1139 E-mail: ipjc@ipjc.org