Life Magazine, "Garment Workers at Play," August 1, 1938
notes: label: Description
content: The combined efforts of unions, businesses, reformers, government agencies, and consumers markedly improved the conditions of garment workers throughout the industry. In 1938, Life magazine declared the war on sweatshops won: “Thirty years ago the industry stank of the sweatshop and the cruelest kind of exploitation . . . Still numerous in 1933, the sweatshop is virtually gone today.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Political History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Sweatshops
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0693.3358
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0693.3358
label: accession number
content: 1989.0693
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Magazine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm; x 11 in