One of these sweatshop factories had made clothes destined for the UK in recent months.
So compared to how rich Indonesia is those sweatshop wages actually look pretty good.
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The misery brought unusual global attention but only reinforced notions of a sweatshop land.
"BBC staff have today rejected management's attempts to create a modern-day BBC sweatshop, " said Bectu leader Gerry Morrissey.
Dozens of sweatshop operations have sprouted up across Dhaka over the past decade trying to profit from the cheap clothes boom.
Sometimes they tip off journalists before persuading the police to raid a sweatshop.
You may also be able to afford the sweatshop approach to media.
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The ''sweatshop free'' message just did not work in a nation where the average salary is one-thirtieth that of America.
While labor activists refer to Longhua as a sweatshop, it hardly has the look of Dickensian squalor the term connotes.
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Clearly, the modern day cubicle is more human than the Dickensian sweatshop, just as Skype is more personal than a telephone.
But only its fewer than 7, 000 Cantonese inhabitants were allowed to vote, and not the 60, 000-odd sweatshop labourers from other provinces.
By local standards, however, these sweatshop jobs are the best opportunities available.
Promised a chance to send home money to his family, he was forced to work unpaid in a sweatshop for 14 hours a day.
Nike pulled back its sweatshop operations under public and investor pressure.
After the anti-sweatshop campaigns of the late 1990s, all three joined the Fair Labour Association, which sends inspectors, unannounced, to check on working conditions in factories.
"It's deeply, deeply disturbing to all of us, " Gap President Marka Hansen said Sunday after watching a video of children at work in a New Delhi, India, sweatshop.
For all the sweatshop noise, the footwear and apparel trades knew long ago that this contracting-out made sense it never occurred to the Gap to hire an apparel worker.
And here we are, 150 years later, still struggling with that legacy: way too many businesses still operate like civilized, air-conditioned versions of the 19th century sweatshop.
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The medical payment system makes primary care a sweatshop.
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The Silicon Valley start-up culture of tireless, low-paid work for a common passion and a vague promise of future riches often seems as alien to today's young and educated Asians as their grandparents' sweatshop reminiscences.
Ms. Zhang, , a one-time sweatshop worker who has since become a billionaire by building some of the most striking structures in China, is committing hundreds of millions of dollars to construction in Beijing and Shanghai.
Even as India gallops toward First World status--with its booming economy, roaring stock market and rapid progress in autos and steel--it is still a giant back-yard sweatshop to the world, staffed by underage boys and girls.
In 1996, the Labor Department accused DeCoster of maintaining "sweatshop conditions" for migrant workers at its Turner, Maine, chicken farm, where then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said workers risked salmonella by handling dead chickens and manure with their bare hands.
The New York Times reports today that the group was founded in 1999 by universities, nonprofit groups and by companies, including Nike, that were trying to address supply chain worker conditions in the face of criticism from anti-sweatshop groups.
In contrast, other recent China-related PR crises such as complaints by former workers at Gucci China that the brand was operating essentially a sweatshop in southern China remained largely localized and were less widely reported in the global English-language press.
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Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
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