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Article: Sweatshop-buster Charles Kernaghan: fashion hits its Nader. (Ralph Nader)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- June 6, 1996
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WASHINGTON -- Good-guy crusader or devious fanatic?
However he's perceived, there's little doubt that Charles Kernaghan and his anti-sweatshop battle have been shaking up the issue of labor abuses in the apparel industry like nothing since the Triangle Shirtwaist fire.
With a fervor recalling Ralph Nader, he ignited weeks of headlines with his disclosure in April that a Honduran factory had used children to produce goods for the Kathie Lee Gifford apparel collection. It was only the latest skirmish reinforcing his take-no-prisoners reputation in his war against labor abuses in the apparel industry.
To Kernaghan, the Gifford case -- which resulted in the ...