"Our first effort is always to source things from the U.S., but not a lot of garments are made in the U.S." --Ted Jackson President of Spalding Group, explaining how his company supplied a presidential campaign with merchandise made in Burmese sweatshops

Made in America

Buying Made in USA

• The American Style Directory: The MyPersonalStyle shopping directory, the first and largest directory of online retailers of American made clothing, shoes, and accessories.
• zebulonUSA: A new retailer carrying only American made apparel and other products.
• Still Made in USA: A one-woman volunteer effort to share information about American made products and where to buy them!
• Buy American: America's store, with thousands of American made apparel items, housewares, and more.
• Homefront USA: Nothing but quality American made gifts and other products for the home and outdoors.

Made In USA Awareness

• Rescue American Jobs: Devoted to preserving American jobs through education, increased awareness, and activism.
• The Textile Crisis: The American Textile Manufacturers Institute's testimony before Congress
• Lou Dobbs: The home of outspoken CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, and his "Exporting America" series of reports.
• Crafted with Pride in USA: An educational campaign to inform American consumers about the importance of domestic manufacturing
• How Americans Can Buy American: Sneak peeks at Roger Simmermaker's exhaustive guide to buying American products, and trade policy news and commentary.

Sweatshop Awareness

• Department of Labor: The U.S. Dept of Labor's Special Initiative page for garment workers in the U.S.
• National Labor Committee: A grass roots movement to put sweatshops on the national agenda and to hold corporations accountable for abuses.
• Sweatshop Watch: A coalition of over thirty organizations, committed to eliminating sweatshop exploitation.
• The Campaign for Labor Rights: An organization that works to inform and mobilize grassroots activists against sweatshops.
• Children and the Global Sweatshop: A report on the International Labor Organization's study of child labor in apparel and footwear sweatshops.