Sweatshop Facts

A 1913 survey of US children working under difficult conditions in factories found that 412 out of 500 would rather work in sweatshops than the "monotony, humiliation, and cruelty" of school. history.nasa.gov/sp4801-c…

The University of Wisconsin terminated its apparel contract with Nike because of their treatment of sweatshop workers in Honduras huffingtonpost.com/2010/0…

CAPTCHA tests on web forms are considered ineffective as sweatshop workers complete them for $12 per 500 tests stackoverflow.com/a/47757…

Closing down sweatshops often leads to a subsequent surge in child prostitution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swe…

The guy who tried and failed to get the word "sweatshop" printed on his custom Nike shoes went on to found Buzzfeed wired.co.uk/magazine/arch…

"Made in Italy" handbags and shoes were likely made by Chinese immigrants illegally living in Italy working in illegal sweatshops set up by Italian brands to cut costs without moving production overseas. articles.latimes.com/2008…

The founder and CEO of Lululemon defends the use of child forced labor and sweatshops. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lul…

A 2011 investigation found Disney's best-selling "Cars" toys were being made in a factory in China that used child labour and forced staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law theguardian.com/law/2011/…

Zoolander is banned in Malaysia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…

There are sweat shops that farm in-game currency (MMORPG'S) to be sold for real money csrn.camden.rutgers.edu/n…

Disney planned and created a whole fucking town in the early 90s. ~7000 people currently live there, and it has a University. It is completely devoid of branding, because they have created 'the dream'. Welcome to Celebration, FL architecture.about.com/od…