The Reemergence Of Sweatshops And The Enforcement Of Wage And Hour Standards

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Reemergence of Sweatshops and the Enforcement of Wage and Hour Standards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book "Sweatshops" in the U.S. written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the problem of sweatshops in the United States, specifically: (1) the extent and nature of sweatshops nationwide; (2) federal, state, and local efforts to regulate sweatshops; and (3) policy options that might help control the problem. GAO found that: (1) 40 of the 53 Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Labor (DOL) officials it interviewed believed that sweatshops were a serious problem in at least one industry in their geographical area; (2) the restaurant, apparel, and meat-processing industries had the most serious and widespread problems; (3) Hispanic and Asian ethnic groups had the largest percentages of workers in sweatshops in those three industries; (4) the officials believed that, in the past 10 years, the severity of violations in the three industries remained about the same or became worse; and (5) there were violations throughout 47 of the 50 states. GAO also found that examples of violations found in the three industries included: (1) failure to keep required records of wages, hours worked, and injuries; (2) incorrect wages, both below the minimum wage and without overtime compensation; (3) illegal work by minors; (4) fire hazards; and (5) work procedures that could cause crippling illness. In addition, GAO found factors: (1) responsible for violations included the large immigrant work force, low profit margins in labor-intensive industries, too few inspectors, and inadequate penalties; and (2) limiting enforcement efforts included limited coordination between DOL and DOJ, insufficient staff resources, and the inadequacy of penalties for wage and hour violations under present law. GAO identified three policy options to improve enforcement, including: (1) increasing the number of compliance officers and changing enforcement priorities; (2) developing closer working relationships among the enforcement agencies; and (3) amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide civil monetary penalties for violations.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Reemergence of Sweatshops and the Enforcement of Wage and Hour Standards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book "Sweatshops" in the U.S. written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to Include Industrial Homework written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Oversight Hearings on the Department of Labor's Proposal to Lift the Ban on Industrial Homework written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eileen Boris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521455480
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Home to Work written by Eileen Boris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to Work restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate over their labour. It provides a historical context to the Reaganite lifting of New Deal bans. Where once men's right to contract inhibited regulation, now women's right to employment undermined prohibition. Economic and political justice, whether based on rights to homework or rights as workers, will depend on homeworkers becoming visible as workers who happen to mother.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings on Youth Incentive Employment Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christina E. Gringeri
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Getting by written by Christina E. Gringeri and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s and 1980s saw a resurgeance of industrial homework in rural areas. This text examines the effects of homeworking on workers (mainly women) and their families, and explores the role of the state in subsidising the development of homeworking jobs that depend on gender.

Author : Ellen Israel Rosen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520233379
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Making Sweatshops written by Ellen Israel Rosen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry investigates the problems of domestic apparel workers, noting the influence of trade policy and global economics to reveal how current processes are creating extreme levels of poverty. Simultaneous. (Social Science)