Campaigns Quote by Charles Derber

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core of the…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

— Norman Finkelstein

“The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing…

— Mary Doria Russell

GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade…

— Naomi Klein

“Buy American and helping sweatshop workers are conflicting goals.”

— Benjamin Powell

“Hours are long. Wages are pitiful. But sweatshops are the symptom, not the cause, of shocking global poverty. Workers go there voluntarily, which means—hard…

— Tim Harford

No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is…

— James Bobin

“It never, however, drove him to the extremity of trying to find a regular job. As he makes clear in Mein Kampf, he had…

— William L. Shirer

I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

— Carine Roitfeld

Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social…

— Charles Platt

Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image,…

— James M Strock

If this goes into sweatshop labor, I'm quitting this podcast.

— Bill Burr