I am looking for exact locations of American-owned "sweatshops" in
foreign countries.

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Request for Question Clarification by expertlaw-ga on 09 Aug 2002 07:14 PDT

How do you define "sweatshop" for the purpose of your question?

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 09 Aug 2002 07:24 PDT

Many sweatshops are locally owned but earn their money by contracting
with  American firms.  Do you want those too, or just the sweatshops
that are actually owned by Americans?

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Clarification of Question by gracie13-ga on 09 Aug 2002 10:59 PDT

I have been able to determine (as well) that most foreign-based
"sweatshops" are locally owned, but mostly perform contract work for
U.S.-owned businesses/labels.  I have some good sources on
maquiladoras in Mexico that are definiteley U.S. owned.  I am looking,
specifically, for sweatshops in foreign countries that are U.S.-owned.
 Five to seven examples would be great, spread out across the world. 
For my purposes, "sweatshops" would be exactly what we think when we
hear it: extremely poor working conditions, very low wages, long
shifts, no (or minimal) breaks, use of child labor, poor treatment of
workers (making them sign contracts to not get pregnant, married,
etc., not getting them medical attention if they get hurt on the job,
working them to exhaustion, etc.).

gracie13

I'm not sure that you're going to find much evidence of American
ownership of foreign sweatshops, however, you might want to take a
browse of Naomi Klein's book title, "No Logo" for some great
first-hand accounts and statistics of foreign labour.  The book names
companies, cities where sweatshops are located, and even has
statistics of how many hours and payrate of employees.

Here's an article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune stating
about an employee at an American owned company in Tailand.

http://startribune.hr.com/index.cfm/46/26A93FCA-79B8-11D4-9AAB009027E0248F