Anti-Sweatshop Resources

Organizations

• Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR)
• Clean Clothes Campaign (Europe-based, Asia-focused)
• Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (Mexico-focused)
• Global Exchange
• International Labor Rights Forum
• Maquiladora Solidarity Network (Canada-based)
• National Labor Committee
• STITCH
• SweatFree Communities
• Sweatshop Watch
• Transfair USA (fair trade)
• Witness for Peace
• Women Working Worldwide (U.K.-based)

Student/University-Related

• Fair Labor Association
• United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
• Worker Rights Consortium

Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

• Ethical Trading Initiative (UK-based)
• MFA Forum
• Social Accountability International

Unions

• AFL-CIO
• International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation
• Solidarity Center
• UNITE HERE

Suggested Reading Materials

The Maquila Solidarity Network, SweatFree Communities and Sweatshop Watch each have extensive resource lists and campaign kits; only a few materials are listed here.

• Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph. Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice. New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Frundt, Henry. Cross-Border Organizing in the Apparel Industry: Lessons From Central America and the Caribbean? Labor Studies Journal, Spring, 1999.
• Pruett, Duncan and Clean Clothes Campaign. Looking for a Quick Fix: How Weak Social Auditing is Keeping Workers in Sweatshops. Amsterdam: PrimaveraQuint, 2005.
• STITCH. Women Behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America. Available from www.stitchonline.org.
• International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers Federation. Organising in a Global Economy and Educate and Organise. Handbooks for educators and activists, available from the ITGLWF.