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1. Exercise 1.1: How Is Higher Education Related to Democracy?

Campus Compact

2. Exercise 1.3: What’s the Connection Between College Students and Sweatshops?

Outside the Lines: Cowboys Clothing Controversy
The Magazine: A 2nd Look: "Going South"
Fair Labor Association
Worker Rights Consortium
USAS Sweatfree Campus Campaign
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Green America’s Responsible Shopper
International Labor Organization
Global March Against Child Labor

3. Exercise 1.4: Worried About the Increasingly High Cost of Tuition?

Inequality.org
Higher Ed Not Debt

4. Exercise 1.5: Are Campus Workers Paid Enough to Be Able to Support Themselves?

Self-Sufficiency Standard
Living Wage Calculator
How a Living Wage is Calculated
USAS Overview of Campaigns for Campus Worker Justice

Suggestions for Specific Actions:

• Establish your own campus group to fight sweatshops. WE Charity and United Students Against Sweatshops to learn how to form a local group to combat sweatshops.
• Go to your representatives’ and senators’ websites (you can find them at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov).
• “Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at CAL”