Time Card
date: label: date made
content: Late 20th Century
label: date made
content: 1990s
notes: label: Description
content: This phony time card was maintained for Hang Ngoc Tan for the week of May 10th, 1996. This time card, along with others seized from El Monte by U.S. Department of Labor investigators, shows an employee working eight hours a day. Further investigation revealed that she actually worked much longer hours.
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 made
content: United States: California, El Monte
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0279.12
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0279.12
label: accession number
content: 1997.0279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: time card
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 3 1/2 in; 22.86 cm x 8.89 cm