Word: sweatshops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PSLM has achieved its greatest success in the anti-sweatshop campaign...
...operate on the assumption that the University is not going to change its policies until they become too embarrassing to sustain," Offner says. But this tactic has its limits. The anti-sweatshop campaign won easier victories because it did not run counter to any set University rule and it required little effort on Harvard's part to comply...
...This [issue]arose with the students, not with the administration," says University attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., Harvard's point person on the issue of sweatshop policy...
Ryan says PSLM has been successful because University policy does not conflict with the campaign's core demands regarding sweatshop labor...
PSLM calls this committee, scheduled to release a report in the spring, a stalling tactic. In order to break the deadlock, it has turned to more aggressive public demonstrations than those necessary in the anti-sweatshop campaign...