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

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), April, 2006

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.).

"A textile piece worker laboring six days a week now earns up to $69 U.S. dollars per month. That is less than Thailand's current minimum wage and roughly half of what she earned on the assembly line."