Sweatshop warriors: immigrant women workers take on the global factory

Abstract

her supervisor leans over her, yelling. The heroine, worried about her sick child back at home and frustrated in all her efforts to get together money to help the little girl, doesn’t look at the supervisor but bows her head and cries, helpless. But, as the supervisor’s rage rises, the machines in the factory fall silent one by one until the moment when the screaming woman realizes what has happened and she too falls silent. She slowly looks around at the faces of the workers. Suddenly, she is no longer a boss but one person confronted by a powerful wall of silent solidarity.