Worker Rights Consortium

Abstract

Abstract Founded in April 2000, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) describes itself as “an independent labor rights monitoring organization, conducting investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe” whose “purpose is to combat sweatshops and protect the rights of workers who sew apparel and make other products sold in the United States” (Worker Rights Consortium 2009a). Created by the “sweatfree campus” movement organized by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) in the mid 1990s, the WRC had, as of December 2009, 186 university and college and four high school affiliates. While some affiliations were voluntary and enthusiastic, others joined only after student sit‐ins and/or hunger strikes (Featherstone & USAS 2002).

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