The Designated Suppliers Program (DSP) is a

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standard proposed by the

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and

United Students Against Sweatshops United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is a student organization founded in 1998 with chapters at over 250 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In April 2000, USAS founded the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an independen ...

. The program was designed to promote the use by

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of suppliers that make use of a defined set of fair labor practices.Appelbaum, Richard and Dreier, Peter
"Campus Breakthrough on Sweatshop Labor"
''The Nation'', June 1, 2006.

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The WRC's description of the DSP and the debate surrounding itStatements opposing the DSP
by the

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