Committee on Education and the Workforce
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

The American Worker at Crossroads Project
Hearing on Worker Exploitation in New York City Garment Industry

March 31, 1998
2175 Rayburn House Office Building
at 2:00 p.m.

Opening Statement by Chairman Hoekstra

Witness List

The Honorable William F. Goodling
Chairman
Committee on Education and the Workforce
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC

Professor Peter Kwong
Director, Asian Studies
Hunter College
New York, New York
(Invited by Mr. Hoekstra)

Confidential and Protected Workers
from the garment industry in Chinatown
New York, New York
(Invited by Mr. Hoekstra):

 Robert Fitch
Free-lance writer
New York, New York
(Invited by Mr. Hoekstra)

John R. Fraser
Acting Administrator
Wage and Hour Division
Department of Labor
Washington, DC

Photographs taken of working conditions in the garment industry in New York:

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