January 5, 2001
Anti-Sweatshop Groups Find It Difficult to Turn Campus Idealism Into Real Change
Setting up a system to monitor far-away factories involves an array of logistical challenges
On college campuses across America, where few get dirt beneath their fingernails, middle-class students have for two years been carrying signs, refusing food, or locking themselves to buildings in the name of ending abuses in overseas apparel sweatshops.
The protests have helped turn college administrators into budding factory watchdogs. Now, however, as
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