Maine
Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign:� A model for many other clean clothes campaigns.� Bangor was the first U.S. community to sign a Clean Clothes Resolution.� Up and running for four years, the website is very comprehensive.
Maine Center for Economic Policy:� Website maintains articles and publications from MECEP concerning the economy of Maine.
Southern Maine Clean Clothes Campaign: Lists ten reasons to care about the source of the clothes you wear.
Student Organizing
United Students Against Sweatshops: Wonderful site for college campus organizing.� Additional resources include a critique of the Fair Labor Association, organizing materials, and university codes of conduct.
Union Sponsored Sites
UNITE -- Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees:� Pages include ways for workplaces to unionize, a list of unionized companies that produce consumer goods, teaching units for school-aged children, and information on where George W. Bush and Al Gore stand on sweatshop issues.
AFL-CIO Sweat Free: A portal to other sites.� Many valuable links.
Sites Sponsored by Other Groups
Global Exchange:� Information about fair trade and campaign information for specific companies and countries.� Also connects groups to speakers in a range of sweatshop issues.
Maquila Solidarity Network:� Includes information on specific campaigns (Nike, Gap, Phillips Van Heusen, etc.) as well as general organizing information.� Accessible in Spanish and English.
Feminists Against Sweatshops: Lots of interesting information about women and sweatshops.� Includes a comprehensive and informative FAQ on sweatshop labor.
Sweatshop Watch:� Includes "What Can I Do?" and a valuable list of links.� Many articles concerning sweatshop conditions and abuses.
Human Rights Watch:� This organization's webpage contains initiatives to end the suffering of sweatshop workers, farm workers, child workers, and others.� Extensive archive of articles on everything from land mines to war crimes.
European Clean Clothes Campaign:� Links to other clean clothes campaigns, information about manufacturers, codes of conduct, and other valuable resources.
NikeWages:� Can an Indonesian Nike factory worker really survive on $1.25 (US) a day?� A team of Americans invested in human rights issues have traveled to South East Asia to live on less than two dollars a day to find out.� The website chronicles their journey and findings.
Campaign for Labor Rights:� Organization mobilizes grassroots activism through e-mail alerts.� Site also contains a huge listing of sweatshop and labor documents.
National Labor Committee:� Includes information on wages of apparel workers worldwide as well as sweatshop information on specific countries and companies.
History
Triangle Fire Website:� Documents the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 147 people in 1911, most of them young women.� Includes oral histories, reprints of newspaper articles and a list of the victims.
Governmental and Monitoring Organizations
US Department of Labor:� Contains information about U.S. sweatshops.
Fair Labor Association:� Government's response to the proliferation of sweatshops.� The FLA is composed of representatives of non-governmental organizations, colleges, and apparel manufacturers.� For another view of the Fair Labor Association click here.� You will need Adobe Acrobat or another PDF reader to view the document.�
Worker Rights Consortium:� United Students Against Sweatshops' response to the proliferation of sweatshops. The WRC doesn't allow industry representation in its monitoring efforts and has more stringent requirements for factories.
Verite:� Monitoring agency.� Verite was chosen to be the independent monitor in a settlement when Saipan workers sued the manufacturers they worked for for back wages and terrible work environments. Website gives a comprehensive look at monitoring.�