On AlterNet: child labor

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The Dark Side of Chocolate: What Our Love Affair With Cocoa Means for the World

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. February 6, 2012.

In addition to labor issues, chocolate plantations can be responsible for deforestation. But it can also be empowering to farmers and relatively healthy for the environment.

Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. December 21, 2011.

A new report finds evidence of forced child labor in Burkina Faso.

Payback Time: Wisconsin Progressives & Labor Ready For Recall Elections

Roger Bybee, In These Times. August 2, 2011.

Polls are favorable as progressives head into the recall elections of eight Wisconsin State Senate Republicans who supported Scott Walker's union-busting.

Seven Ways Scott Walker and the GOP Are Still Trying to Screw Wisconsin's Poor, Working Class, and Just About Everybody Else

Meredith Clark, AlterNet. June 15, 2011.

Wisconsin erupted in protest in February over an attempt to ban collective bargaining, but Gov. Scott Walker didn't stop there in his war on the people of his state.

Madness: Right-Wingers Are Serious About Trying to Undermine Child Labor Laws

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. April 23, 2011.

Yes, they are trying to roll back the 20th century.

100 Years After Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Workers Face Dangers Born of Greed

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. March 24, 2011.

In "Triangle's Echoes: The Unfinished Struggle for Worker Protection, Safety and Health," filmmaker Harry Hanbury shows the fight for workers' rights is far from over.

Hershey's Markets To Kids But Is Likely Implicated In Child Labor, Trafficking And Forced Labor

Peter Boaz, IPS News. September 24, 2010.

According to the report, modern slavery also abounds in areas such as manufacturing, harvest of raw materials, commercial sexual activity and violent acts against workers.

How the Palm Oil Trade Causes a Food Chain of Destruction

Charlie Cray, CorpWatch. May 24, 2010.

Food giant ADM's forays into new global agricultural markets bring charges of forced child labor and rampant deforestation.

Under Guise of Combating Slavery, One Human Rights Group Is Colluding With the Exploitative Chocolate Industry

Christian Parenti, Democracy Now! AlterNet: World. September 14, 2009.

Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, champions his reform of the chocolate industry and halting child labor in West Africa. But no such thing has happened.

What You Should Know Before Buying That Diamond Ring

Staff, AlterNet AlterNet: World. June 8, 2009.

Diamonds 101, from the creative folks at GOOD Magazine.

Modern-Day Slavery and the Big Game

Emira Woods, AlterNet. February 3, 2008.

Most viewers watching the SuperBowl will be oblivious to the abuses of one of its key sponsors.

This Halftime Show is Brought to You by Child Labor in Africa

Ruthie Ackerman, The Nation. February 3, 2008.

The "official tire sponsor" of Super Bowl XLII tries to scrub its image in the face of a major human rights lawsuit.

Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. November 2, 2007.

It's enough to make you vomit on your new denim jacket: The Gap has been caught using child slave labor in an Indian sweatshop.

Gap's Image Shaken by Report of Children Laboring in Sweatshop Conditions

Dan McDougall, The Observer UK. October 29, 2007.

"If any of us cried we were hit with a rubber pipe. Some of the boys had oily cloths stuffed in our mouths as punishment."

How the Luxury Industry Went the Way of McDonald's

Emily Wilson, AlterNet. September 19, 2007.

Even a Louis Vuitton handbag isn't much different from a Big Mac.

Britain's Invisible Labor Force: African Children

Emily Dugan, Independent UK. August 21, 2007.

Why hasn't the enslavement of African children been prosecuted in UK courts?