The University has vigilantly demonstrated its commitment to social responsibility, as has recently been demonstrated by the release of the slavery and justice report. The report, which pivots around ...

Twenty-eights years ago, Thai workers at an El Monte sweatshop reported their mistreatment at what the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History described as “one of the most ...

Twenty Penn State students staged a nearly naked protest on Monday against what they said was the university’s ties to apparel companies that use sweatshop labor, The Digital Collegian, a student ...

In the chamber opera Sweat, which premieres on October 26 at National Sawdust, a red-carpet gown is the harbinger of violence. As soon as photos hit the tabloids, a rush order for ten thousand ...

Cornell’s vibrant labor activism presents a consistent narrative: Vast multinational corporations exploit the world’s poorest people, subjecting them to the modern equivalent of slavery, while, at the ...

This edition of "Better Beauty" explores the fashion industry's history of labor abuses. A new law could shift the U.S. into resolution. It's not exactly a secret the fashion industry as a whole has a ...

In Theory: What's our responsibility toward sweatshops? In the early part of the 20th century, American automobile manufacturers increased their profit margins by hiring ethnic labor from the American ...

On a special episode (first released on January 18, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: The term “fast fashion” brings to mind factories spitting out enormous volumes of clothing using cheap fabric and ...

Charles Kernaghan, a labor activist who helped revitalize the anti-sweatshop movement in the late 20th century, targeting American companies such as Disney — as well as a clothing line backed by ...