Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?

http://solidarity-us.org//node/1739
Date Written:  1999-03-01
Publisher:  Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Year Published:  1999
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12769

AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...