For decades, the worldwide apparel industry has been dominated by a world of oppressive factories and management taking advantage of their employees. In an effort to keep factory costs low and company ...

During the last decade, scholarly criticism of sweatshops has grown increasingly sophisticated. This article reviews the new moral and economic foundations of these criticisms and argues that they are ...

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire—which killed 146 garment workers—shocked the public and galvanized the labor ...

University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials say they don't know where the T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats bearing the Husker name are made. Instead, the university and athletic department rely on a ...

This edition of "Better Beauty" explores the fashion industry's history of labor abuses. A new law could shift the U.S. into resolution. It's not exactly a secret the fashion industry as a whole has a ...

Last Friday, the Brown Student Labor Alliance held a rally in front of University Hall to demand that the University administration eliminate the use of sweatshop labor in the manufacturing of Brown ...

This image, used to illustrate TIME's January 2023 story about OpenAI's use of Kenyan workers, was generated by OpenAI's image-generation software, Dall-E 2. This image, used to illustrate TIME's ...

Sweatshop labor and the lack of concern or transparency about global labor practices were not a common, explicit topic in the main storylines of major U.S. 1980s primetime TV shows, which tended to ...

Oobah Butler is a British filmmaker, writer, and social media provocateur whose work often serves as wry commentary on modern culture. Take, for instance, the time he earned rave five-star reviews for ...