• Anti-sweatshop movement refers to campaigns to improve the conditions of workers in sweatshops, i.e. manufacturing places characterized by low wages, poor...
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    the anti-sweatshop movement is whether such standards can or should be applied to the workplaces of the developing world.[citation needed] Sweatshops are...
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  • Mazza, a textile artist who engages in Craftivism as part of an anti-sweatshop movement. MicroRevolt created a Nike Blanket Petition. The textile artwork...
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    campaign against sweatshops", particularly the anti-sweatshop movement's strategy of encouraging consumer boycotts against sweatshop-produced imports...
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    The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly...
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  • considered to be the organization that began the late-20th-century anti-sweatshop movement in America. The organization suspended operations as of June 2017...
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  • Sweatshop-free or sweat free is a term first used by American Apparel, a famous American clothing brand, which means coercion-free, fair-compensation...
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  • the fair trade movement and the anti-sweatshop movement, claim to promote a more socially just global economy. The fair trade movement works towards improving...
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    Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism. In this sense, anti-capitalists...
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  • Charles Kernaghan (category Anti-corporate activists)
    Kernaghan in The Nation that the anti-sweatshop movement is in some ways, he said, "like the antiapartheid movement, except that in this case it's striking...
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    active in the anti-sweatshop movement since the mid-1990s. From the late 1990s, he has turned his attention to the academic labour movement, both in the...
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    Medea Benjamin (category American anti–Iraq War activists)
    promoted by the World Trade Organization. She participated in an anti-sweatshop movement, initiating campaigns against Nike and clothing companies such...
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  • Act. Anti-sweatshop movement Race Mathews (1993) Australia's First Fabians: Middle-class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement Cambridge...
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    town of Prato, it was reported that many Chinese people were working in sweatshop-like conditions that broke European laws and that many Chinese-owned businesses...
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    Vandana Shiva (category Anti-globalization writers)
    referred to as "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement. Shiva is one of the leaders and board members of the International...
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    Culture jamming (category Anti-corporate activism)
    example, jammer Jonah Peretti used the Nike symbol to stir debate on sweatshop child labor and consumer freedom. Peretti made public exchanges between...
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  • Anti-corporate activism is activism directed against the private sector, particularly larger corporations. It is premised on the belief that the activities...
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  • Slow Food (redirect from Slow Food Movement)
    rather than quantity. It was the first established part of the broader slow movement. It speaks out against overproduction and food waste. It sees globalization...
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    No Logo (category Anti-globalization books)
    Choice", "No Jobs", and "No Logo"), Klein writes about issues such as sweatshops in the Americas and Asia, culture jamming, corporate censorship, and Reclaim...
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  • DeWinter-Schmitt. 2007. Business as usual? The mobilization of the anti-sweatshop movement and the social construction of corporate identity. PhD Dissertation...
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    rights and sustainable development, opponents of privatization, and anti-sweatshop campaigners. In The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy...
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  • organic hemp and recycled car tires. After an extensive search for anti-sweatshop manufacturers around the world, Adbusters found a small union shop in...
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    limited-liability corporation with suspicion" and "doubt[ing] that Third World sweatshops would be the 'best alternative' in the absence of government manipulation"...
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    oppression women were experiencing in their everyday lives. The Anti Capitalist, Anti Sweatshop and DIY movements popularized practices of craft for activism...
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    Russian Empire in 1913 to escape conscription and worked in Baltimore sweatshops and Hebrew elementary schools before attending university. After moving...
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  • the movement of Buen vivir or sumak kawsay by various indigenous peoples. The contemporary degrowth movement can trace its roots back to the anti-industrialist...
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    of forced labour can include domestic servitude, agricultural labour, sweatshop factory labour, janitorial, food service and other service industry labour...
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    Anti-consumerism is a sociopolitical ideology that is opposed to consumerism, the continual buying and consuming of material possessions. Anti-consumerism...
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    Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. The Triangle Waist Company factory occupied the 8th, 9th, and...
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  • writer, and is the founder of Press for Change, a labor group opposed to sweatshop practices. Ballinger is noted by The New York Times for having "exposed...
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