At the Gotham shirtwaist factory, women worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, for starting wages of $3 a week -- conditions that reduced workers "to the status of machines," wrote 17-year-old ...

How bad are Chinese sweatshops? In fast fashion, a factory's employees must be swiftly produced, making them sickly and at risk. Worker dormitories are overcrowded and they lack childcare facilities.

It is particularly cruel to offer young people the American Dream ... 2017 Imagine for example that you are a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh. You make a few cents an hour, working twelve hours ...

The Foxconn factory is unusual because the Shenzhen, China facility has reported 10 worker suicides, and three additional suicides at other Foxconn facilities. At the All Things Digital D8 ...