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Fri 30 Jan, 2009

“Sweatshop Labor is Wrong Unless the Jeans are Cute”

Comments (8) Filed under: Thinking about race, privilege and inequality
Tags: Consumerism, Fair trade, Moral issues, Slavery, Sweatshop labor

A new study by researchers at the Harvard Business School finds that consumers who highly desire a pair of jeans or sneakers are significantly less likely to be concerned about sweatshop labor or other moral issues involved in their manufacture.

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Fri 14 Mar, 2008

The Nation covers “Traces of the Trade”

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Tags: 1808, Abolition, Bicentennial, Media coverage, Moral issues, Reparations, Slave trade

The Nation has just posted an article, “Tracing Slavery’s Past,” which is centered around Traces of the Trade.

The story (web-only) is by Te-Ping Chen, who, as I’ve noted before, has previously written about Traces in the Providence Phoenix.

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