ABSTRACT
The legions who have contributed to the antiglobalization movement in recent years have been driven by many different struggles: against genetically modified foods, structural adjustment programs, undemocratic World Trade Organization (WTO) decision-making, economic privatization, to name a few. Yet there has been one staple, enduring, target of activist attention in all quarters of the movement, and that is the global sweatshop. Indeed, the sweatshop has become a byword for globalization, even though its origins predate, by more than a century, the moment when production (as opposed, merely, to capital) became internationalized, and when offshore locations became much cheaper than unionized, high-wage sectors of the industrialized West.
