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Would you start by telling our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? I grew up in Oklahoma, went to an Episcopal day school as a high school [...]

More than 42 young workers in Turkey died terrible deaths from silicosis after intense exposures to crystalline silica. These workers were sandblasting denim jeans in garment sweatshops so international clothing [...]

It sounds like headlines ripped from newspapers about global sweatshops in the 1990s: huge factories of women workers producing consumer products for Europe and the United States under conditions of [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The occupational health and safety conditions at the giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico displayed how workplace safety in the global economy can best be understood through […]

Fifteen years after blistering anti-sweatshop campaigns against transnational corporations like Nike sparked the booming corporate social responsibility industry, there have been small improvements in workplace health and safety in the […]

The Trump administration's drive to deregulate the America economy and workplaces means the occupational health and safety profession faces an inescapable moment of truth. Will it support the business-backed goal [...]

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs began in the early 1990s with the promise of eliminating dangerous and illegal 'sweatshops' in the global supply chains of world-renown corporations selling consumer products [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health--Cal/OSHA--leads a schizophrenic existence. On one hand, the agency is considered by many to be the 'premier state plan' among the [...]

For the first time in any supply chain anywhere in the world, Bangladesh's garment factories are receiving independent, competent inspections, hazards are being identified and corrected, workers and managers are [...]

On the heels of their first US headlining tour in support of their debut record Drive North (out now via Uncool Records), Oakland punk quartet SWMRS met up with Thrasher [...]

It happened again in Bangladesh in December 2010--a fire in a garment factory killed 29 workers and hundreds were injured as they were suffocated, burned alive, trampled in stairwells, or [...]

Workers in global supply chains have not had an easy time of it this year. Sixteen young workers producing iPhones and iPads for Apple committed suicide in the giant Foxconn [...]

In spite of tens of millions of dollars spent on corporate social responsibility programs, the global economy has seen only marginal improvements in factory-level health and safety in the last [...]

China is now finalizing a new 'Labor Contract Law' to protect workers in the global economy's 'biggest factory floor,' but the proposal is hitting a wall of opposition from transnational [...]

According to official statistics from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the rate of workplace injuries and illnesses in private industry declined in 2005 for the third […]

Ten years ago, Nike Inc. became the poster child for sweatshop working conditions in its then 500 contract factories around the globe: Nike = Sweatshop. Fast forward to 2006: Nike [...]

Ever since Kathy Lee Gifford cried on national television while her husband Frank Gifford handed out $100 bills to random workers in a sweatshop producing garments for Kathy's clothing line, [...]

Manufacturing in the global economy has made a dramatic shift in the last decade from relatively well-regulated, high-wage, often unionized plants in the developed world to very low-wage, basically unregulated, […]

James Wood has established himself as one of the most influential critics in the English-speaking world. His first book, The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature on Belief (1999), included an [...]

For the first time in any global supply chain, genuinely independent inspections of garment factories are identifying and correcting life safety hazards that have killed hundreds of Bangladesh garment workers [...]

The integrity of the occupational health and safety profession is under threat as it is being drawn into 'certifying' that sweatshop factories in global supply chains in the developing world [...]