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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Sweatshops

1. September 23, 2011 07:52 PM

   The Morning Call’s Amazon Sweatshop Probe

   An excellent investigation exposes poor conditions at a big Pennsylvania warehouse

   By Ryan Chittum

   What's going on with labor in Pennsylvania? It was just last month that foreign students working at Hershey's for the summer went on strike over poor labor conditions. Now, a huge investigation in the Allentown Morning Call shows Amazon treating its local warehouse workers like dirt—and endangering their health. Spencer Soper's terrific piece of reporting goes around the company, which...

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2. April 5, 2011 02:11 PM

   A Triangle Shirtwaist-Like Disaster, Buried By the U.S. Press

   Outsourcing tragedies while paying a sliver of what our workers made 100 years ago

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Consumerist has a fascinating post asking whether we've really eliminated our Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disasters or if we've just outsourced them. It turns out that a sweatshop in Bangladesh that made clothes for The Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, JC Penney, Target, and others, suffered an eerily Triangle-like disaster just a few months ago: When we noted the 100th anniversary...

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