Are there any companies that don t use sweatshops?
At the moment there are no major brands producing clothing or footwear that do not use sweatshops. 90-95% of all clothing and shoes you will find in retail stores are made in conditions similar to the conditions we documented during our time with Nike s workers in Indonesia. One reason that well-known corporations (Nike, Reebok, Calvin Klein, Old Navy, Wal-Mart, Kohl s, etc.) have multimillion dollar advertising budgets for billboards, TV commercials, magazine ads, radio ads, and newspaper ads is because they pay workers what is considered a “starvation wage”. There are some small-scale suppliers that are trying to make clothes and shoes in a “sweat-free” manner. We are in the process of researching companies like this and hope to have a listing of them on our site in the near future. This may take awhile though, since we want to be equally rigorous in our scrutiny of all companies. But I read on another anti-sweatshop website about organizations like Responsible Shopper and Co-op Amer
