Sweatshops aren't just "overseas" or "across the Border."

The federal government estimates that over one-third of New York's 6,500 garment manufacturing and production workplaces are sweatshops, usually run by subcontractors.

In Los Angeles, up to 4,500 of the 5,000 garment production operations are sweatshops, and a $1 hourly wage is the norm in parts of the city. In Miami, the U.S. General Accounting Office concluded that 80 percent of the garment manufacturers are sweatshops, as are many others in cities such as Portland and Philadelphia.

"In 1992, Michael Jordan earned $20 million for endorsing Nike's running shoes, more than the combined wages of the 30,000 Indonesian workers who made them. Another Michael, Disney CEO Eisner, received $97,600 an hour in salary and stock options in 1996: 325,000 times the 30-cent hourly wage of the Haitian workers who made Pocahontas, Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame T-shorts and pajamas and who sewed on Mickey Mouse's ears."

From November 1997 America@Work.