The modern garment industry is defined by the "sweatshop" where undocumented workers toil under the radar of labor laws for substandard wages, without breaks or benefits. Enter American Apparel and SweatX, two T-shirt factories in downtown L.A. trying to do it differently. But while SweatX is backed by 2.5 million in venture capital by ice-cream maverick Ben Cohen, American Apparel was built from the ground up by eccentric and controversial entrepreneur, Dov Charney. No Sweat is a fast-paced documentary that goes behind the label, comparing two very different companies with a single goal: To take the sweat out of the shop. But do they have what it takes to survive in today's global market place?

The film lifts the label behind the so-called "sweatshop-free" movement and reveals just what lies between the threads.