To the UTC Campus Community:

Today's human rights presentation will focus on sweatshop labor.  This evening at 7:00 in Grote 129, Dr. Robert Ross, professor of sociology at Clark University will present a lecture entitled, "Labor Rights as Human Rights: Free Trade, the WTO and Sweated Labor."

Since the 1980s, Dr. Ross has worked on the political economy of urban development and the analysis of global capitalism. He was active in social movements in the 1960s and still does research in this area.  In 1995, he began research on the resurgence of sweatshops and has given over sixty public lectures on the issue. His most recent book, published by the University of Michigan Press, is entitled Hearts Starve.





Paul W. Posner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
(423)425-4243
Fax:(423)425-2373