ZARA Sweatshops Support Red Blood Fashion

ZARA was once LV.

A garbage dump factory, 7 migrant workers from Bolivia, work 14 hours a day and work 7 days a week to produce a pair of jeans priced at $126.

What does this have to do with the ZARA company, the protagonist of our topic today?

The Spanish retail brand ZARA is now accused of working as slaves in Brazil's more than 30 outsourced factories.

The news was first exposed by an investigative television program called "A Liga" in Brazil.

A reporter in this column visited one of ZARA's factories in Brazil: factory workers, migrant workers from Bolivia, worked in extremely bad conditions.

Let's talk about this.

What is more heartache is that one of the workshops in Brazil's ZARA factory, a Bolivia worker wronged, said: a pair of jeans from ZARA will cost about 200 ral (126 US dollars) in Brazil, and the price of the jeans will be

ZARA is headquartered in Galicia, Spain.

It belongs to Indy textile group.

Ortega, the owner of the Indo Textile Group and billionaire, is a "world super rich" with a net worth of $31 billion, ranking seventh in the Forbes billionaire list.

In 1975, Ortega founded ZARA.

In the middle of 1980s,

ZARA was once praised by LV fashion director Peter as the "most innovative and subversive retailer in the world".

ZARA is a vertically integrated retailer that develops about 11 thousand different products every year and controls most of the supply chain and product design, production and distribution processes.

About 50% of the garments and accessories sold by ZARA are produced in Spain, 26% in other European countries, 24% in Asian and African countries and other relatively low labor forces in the world.

When outsourcing those products with long shelf life, such as basic T- shirts and denim costumes, ZARA's strategy is to design "try out money".

The so-called "trial money" of ZARA will eventually become the supplier's sample, and suppliers will usually outsource the specific production to the third party factory.

According to the intelligence official of the Ministry of labour in St Paul, Brazil, ZARA has 33 secret factories in one of the garment outsourced factories in Brazil. In the past three months, there have been at least 50 thousand different styles of clothing.

According to textual research, the word "sweatshop" (sweatshop) first appeared in the United States in 1867. It originally refers to the system of "feeding and processing at home" in the clothing manufacturers of the United States, and later it refers to the contractor system, which is made by the contractor.

In these two practices, workers earn the lowest daily wages.

However, as a result of avoiding the collective game behavior of workers who work collectively in regular factories, their unit product wages (piecework wage) can be reduced to a minimum, so it is known as the "sweaty system" (sweatingsystem).

Later, this concept was extended to high incentive piecework and high-speed pipeline operations, but it was also conditional on avoiding collective bargaining. For example, the piecework wage system was determined by the denominator of the output of the most skilled workers without collective bargaining.

For example, the British Post Sunday reported that the Apple Corp's iPod was produced by sweatshops, and the foundry factory referred to was Foxconn, the Taiwan foundry giant Hon Hai group. "Their monthly income is only 27 pounds (about 387 yuan), but they work 15 hours a day."

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Developing countries and many Third World countries have the largest number of cheap labor in the world, and many internationally famous brands are made in China. But because the core technology is controlled by foreigners, the vast majority of their products are foreigners, and the workers in developing countries and many Third World countries can only earn a little hard-earned money, and the workers' welfare benefits and medical insurance are not able to keep up with the working conditions. Therefore, many international big enterprises, factories in developing countries and many Third World countries, are known as "sweatshops" in the modern sense.

At the time of our broadcast, ZARA responded to the allegation of "sweatshops in Brazil". In a statement, a spokesman for ZARA admitted that there was "employment of slave workers" in ZARA's factory in Brazil.

At the same time, ZARA also said: "the factory that has immediately assumed its responsibility for illegal authorization outsourcing" has been standardized on "workers' working conditions".

ZARA also promised that it will cooperate with local textile group and Brazil labor department to strengthen supervision over all suppliers of ZARA in Brazil to ensure that such incidents do not happen again.