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When you go down to your nearest mall and shop for clothes you are looking for the best price. If you can get a name brand all the better. Few consider who makes that shirt, sweater, or pair of jeans or sneakers. Evidence has mounted in the past couple of years that a lot of the clothing and shoes we buy from companies like Nike are made under dreadful sweatshop conditions by poorly paid workers, many of them children, in Third World countries.
Charlie Kernaghan is the executive director of the National Labor Committee, an independent, human rights organisation based in New York. He is prominent in the movement in drawing attention to and correcting the overseas labor practices of US corporations. The "New York Times" calls him "the labor movement's mouse that roared."
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