Economic globalization brings opportunities as well as challenges to business and labour, and labour rights violations related to sweatshops are one of them. With the human rights movement, more and more social organisations are joining the anti-sweatshop movement. In this context, governments have also been deemed to need to collaborate and take action to ban the sale of products manufactured under sweatshop conditions. This essay will address the anti-sweatshop movement from the perspectives of sustainable supply chains and corporate social responsibility. After analysing the reasons that influence the formation of sweatshops and the importance of the need to eradicate them, the essay will argue that by doing so various governments can effectively promote awareness amongst businesses of their need to adhere to corporate codes of conduct and fulfil corporate social responsibility, and as a result these corporations will have the potential to safeguard labour rights and promote their own sustainable development and social justice.