sweatshop
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The fashion-magazine moment is long gone as Miranda deals with such alarming new trends as budget cuts, the imperative to cram her vision into annoying little video clips, and consumer sensitivity to sweatshop manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
A Hong Kong content creator dressed head to toe in Tod's, 26-year-old Stephanie Hui, said people were "desensitised" to stories of sweatshop conditions in the fashion industry, with consumers feeling powerless to effect change.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Zookeepers “may as well live and die surrounded by animals than in a sweatshop or war zone, right?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025
“Yuletide Factory,” a circus show at the New Victory Theater, splits the difference, locating its cheer inside a sweatshop churning out seasonal doodads.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Sugar was a bridge—like the sneakers and T-shirts and rugs that, today, we know are made by sweatshop labor.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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East Asia - Middle School
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South Asia - Middle School and High School
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