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	<title>Robert J. S. Ross</title>
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	<description>Professor of Sociology at Clark University</description>
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		<title>Ralph Lauren and the Olympic Uniforms (from the LA Times)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Op-Ed Hey, Ralph Lauren, sweatshops aren&#8217;t chic Olympic gear shouldn&#8217;t come from such factories — ours or theirs. By Robert J.S. Ross July 19, 2012 Ralph Lauren, the crown prince of preppy, received more than $30 million in compensation in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/ralph-lauren-and-the-olympic-uniforms-from-the-la-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering MayDay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY DAY 2012: REMEMBERING WHY Robert J.S. Ross, rjsross@clarku.edu The story of May Day begins with the struggle to make the eight-hour workday the legal and economic norm for wageworkers. In the older industrial countries, this struggle was largely successful, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/remembering-mayday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect in Working Class Struggles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, September 7, 2011 From This week in Sociology Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect in Working Class Struggles by Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University, Professor of Sociology On January 11, 1912 a group of Polish women textile workers &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/bread-and-roses-dignity-and-respect-in-working-class-struggles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Struggles at the bottom of the pyramid [unpublished] June 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the last Great Depression, in 1933, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins said: &#8220;The red silk bargain dress in the shop window is a danger signal. It is a warning of the return of the sweatshop, a &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/struggles-at-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid-unpublished-june-2009/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Workers’ Wages in China and Bangladesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author’s note:  this letter made the NYT website, but not the grown-up newspaper. link » July 23, 2010 Workers’ Wages in China and Bangladesh To the Editor: Re “As Labor Costs Rise in China, Textile Jobs Shift Elsewhere” (front page, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/workers%e2%80%99-wages-in-china-and-bangladesh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh and the Triangle Fires:  Exporting fires from rich to poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12/15/10 Bangladesh and the Triangle Fires:  Exporting fires from rich to poor 100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a sordid parallel exists across the globe Laws and enforcement needed in trade agreements  On March 25 we will observe the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/bangladesh-and-the-triangle-fires-exporting-fires-from-rich-to-poor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid : Gender and Sweated Labor in Global Apparel Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on the blog site This week in Sociology OCTOBER 25, 2011 Robert J.S. Ross &#8211; Clark University Sweatshop conditions refer to long hours, low wages and oppressive conditions – dangerous unhealthy, psychologically abusive or squalid. In the global assembly &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://wordpress.clarku.edu/rjsross/in-chains-at-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid-gender-and-sweated-labor-in-global-apparel-production/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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