March 10, 2000

Sweatshop Issue Escalates With Sit-Ins and Policy Shifts

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

Bowing to student pressure, several universities join a labor-backed monitoring group

The Worker Rights Consortium does not officially exist, and won't until a founding conference next month. Its office is a room donated by a Greenwich Village church.

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2 Approaches to Monitoring Factories

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