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Tag: American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA)

‘Rebuilding Haiti’: the sweatshop hoax

Within days of a Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated much of southern Haiti, the New York Times was using the disaster to promote a United Nations plan for drastically expanding the country’s garment assembly industry, which employs low paid workers to stitch apparel for duty-free export, mainly to the U.S. market.