Students Against Sweatshops

First Sentence

Fourteen-year-olds, from Bangladesh to the Mexican maquila, working fourteen-hour days in factories that reek of toxic fumes; young women supporting families on some twenty cents an hour; factory managers who forbid sick workers time off to go to the doctor; bosses in El Monte, California and elsewhere who have, quite literally, turned factories into prisons, forcibly detaining workers in sweatshops surrounded by barbed wire - more and more North Americans are familiar with such images, and the brutality of the garment industry has even made it to prime-time television.

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