Los Angeles-based garment supplier Justar Fashion failed to pay its workers minimum wage and overtime, sometimes paying them on a piece-rate basis instead, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour ...

A survey of garment-sewing manufacturers in Southern California found that some employees were working in what officials called “sweatshops,” with certain workers making as little as $1.58 per hour.

In 1995, seventy-two Thai garment workers were found imprisoned in an El Monte apartment that was turned into a sweat shop. "I feel like that case is an example of what happens when working people are ...