Los Angeles Sweatshops Are Thriving, Experts Say By KENNETH B. NOBLE Almost one-fifth of the garment industry workers in Los Angeles, many of them foreigners who came to the United States to escape the crushing poverty of their homelands, are toiling in unregulated, sweatshop conditions, labor officials, economists and union organizers said today. Exactly how many find themselves bound to employers who take advantage of their legal status, naivete and cultural alienation [...]