Ms Magazine

Paradise Lost

Greed, Sex Slavery, Forced Abortions and Right-Wing Moralists

by Rebecca Clarren
photos by Martin Von Krogh

 

"That expensive blouse you’re wearing? It may have been sewn by a Filipina garment worker laboring in a factory owned by a Hong Kong mogul on a western Pacific island. The Northern Mariana Islands, a territory of the United States, offers the possibility of an American label — Made in Saipan (USA), Made in Northern M Chinese garment workers check legal papers in a case against a factory owner who owes them back pay.ariana Islands (USA), or simply Made in USA — to garment manufacturers, and throws in a unique exemption from U.S. minimum-wage and immigration laws." read more here

Chinese garment workers check legal papers in a case against a factory owner who owes them back pay.