Before you slip into those jeans made in Swaziland, consider that working conditions in overseas sweatshops not only have helped destroy the U.S. garment industry, but have turned textile workers toiling abroad into the "new slaves" of globalized industrialism, or so says sociologist Piya Pangsapa, assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies, University at Buffalo (N.Y.).

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Before you slip into those jeans made in Swaziland, consider that working conditions in overseas sweatshops not only have helped destroy the U.S. garment industry, but have turned textile workers toiling abroad into the "new slaves" of globalized industrialism, or so says sociologist Piya Pangsapa, assistant professor in the Department of Women's Studies, University at Buffalo...