TIPP cap, 1990s
date: label: date made
content: Late 20th Century
label: date made
content: 1990s
notes: label: Description
content: This baseball cap belonged to a member of the Targeted Industries Partnership Program, a joint enforcement and education effort of the California Department of Industrial Relations, the California Employment Development Department, and the U.S. Department of Labor focuses on stopping unfair competition and worker exploitation. TIPP’s most prominent case — the El Monte sweatshop — was cracked by investigators from the California Department of Industrial Relations.
label: Description
content: On August 2, 1995, police officers raided a fenced seven-unit apartment complex in El Monte, California. They arrested eight operators of a clandestine garment sweatshop and freed 72 workers who were being forced to sew garments in virtual captivity. Smuggled from Thailand into the United States, the laborers’ plight brought a national spotlight to domestic sweatshop production and resulted in increased enforcement by federal and state labor agencies. The publicity of the El Monte raid also put added pressure on the apparel industry to reform its labor and business practices domestically and internationally.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place used
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: El Monte
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content: Work
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content: Sweatshops
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Labor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0279.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0279.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball cap
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (part: strap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 26.3525 cm x 20.955 cm