Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.

Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.

Authors offer differing opinions on various legal, ethical, and practical aspects that surround the issue of child labor and sweatshops around the world.

On his way home to San Diego, P.I. Patrick Kincaid takes a detour through San Francisco to check on the well-being of a family friend whos mysteriously been unreachable. What he doesnt expect is to be shot at before he can find out why attorney Elle Santana wont ask the police for help in finding a missing girl. Soon, he and Elle race to find the witness and take down a sweatshop run by a corrupt businessman with a penchant for violence. Newly sworn...

In this spin on A Christmas carol, Old Scroogemacher is a tyrant to the poor workers in his waistcoat factory, even on the last night of Hanukkah. Visited by three rabbis, Scroogemacher travels from the time of the Maccabees to present day.