Standards for Sweatshops: The Power and Limits of Club Theory for Explaining Voluntary Labor Standards Programs
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In the early 1990s, when activists first accused apparel and footwear companies like Nike, Wal-Mart, and the Gap of profiting from exploitation, child labor, and the suppression of labor rights in their supply chains, most companies responded by denying responsibility. Confronted in 1992 with images of child labor in a Bangladeshi factory, Wal-Mart’s CEO famously dismissed them, telling Dateline NBC, “the pictures you showed me mean nothing to me” (qtd. in Ramey and Barrett 1996:10).
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