Labor in Bangladesh is not cheap enough for the apparel industry. Time to move to Myanmar, so long as the government--a group of military leaders not precisely known for taking.
Active defenders of sweatshops really get under my skin because they combine a celebration of labor exploitation with cherry picking historical examples in order to create a false narrative of.
Patagonia is receiving some kudos for taking steps to clean up its supply chain. After investigating conditions in its supply chain, mostly at factories in Taiwan, it discovered all the.
Sohel Rana, owner of the Rana Plaza where over 1100 workers were killed in the largest workplace accident in industrial history, has been charged with murder in Bangladesh. 42 others.
Another horrible disaster in the global apparel industry. This time it was in the Philippines where at least 72 are dead after a fire burned a slipper factory. There might.
Please read this Human Rights Watch report on union busting in Bangladesh's garment industry. Two years after Rana Plaza, conditions have changed slightly for the better because of pressure from.
The anti-sweatshop activism of the late 1990s and early 2000s has been on the upswing lately, partially in response to the outrages of the 1134 workers dying at the Rana.
I love this campaign by the Canadian Fair Trade Network that plays on country of origin labels to describe the working conditions in those nations. "100% cotton. Made in Cambodia.
