Liza Featherstone and United Students Against Sweatshops, _Students Against Sweatshops_ (London and New York: Verso, 2002), 119 pages, paper $15.00.
... There are many events that may wake people up and make them think and act. For college students, it might be a war that threatens their lives and those of their contemporaries in other countries. It might be a part-time job, a trip abroad, an internship with a labor union or a social service organization, church activity, a teacher's lectures, discussion with classmates, a speaker on campus, a film, or labor struggles on their own campuses.
A number of circumstances conspired in the 1990s to create a new student movement, one with great promise for promoting radical change. Liza Featherstone's new book, Students against Sweatshops, examines what is probably the most important manifestation of this movement-the student-led struggle against sweatshops. Written in active collaboration with the United Students against Sweatshops, this slim volume is an interesting and thoughtful history and analysis of the antisweatshop movement. Along with Featherstone's narrative, there are personal accounts written by thirteen student activists, and these add greatly to the book because they give us an idea of who the students are, and how they came to be so deeply involved in the lives of people whose living and working conditions are so far removed from their own....
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* Calendar of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html> * Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>