The Shadow Of Sweatshops In The Fashion World

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"P > Britain, high street" a href= "http://www.91se91.com/" target= "_blank" clothing "/a" brand Primark stores, people hold the photos of the ruins of the eight tier garment factories in Bangladesh not long ago, holding the protest cards such as "the shame of Primark" and "never happen again".

People carrying different brands of shopping bags can walk out and look at the protesters with curiosity.

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The same familiar scenes have occurred in different European and American clothing brand stores such as Zara, H&M, Mango, Gap, Banana Republic and so on. It has never stopped for many years, and the world-famous middle end and low-end clothing brands have almost survived P.

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< p > this is the only reason for this protest to be more shocking and tragic.

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< p > April 25th, a 8 storey building in the suburbs of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed. There were more than 3000 people in the building. As of May 13th, the number of victims has been confirmed as many as 1127.

In May 10th, half a month after the tragedy, a woman who was crushed under the ruins was lucky to be rescued. The local government stopped search and rescue in May 14th.

The collapsed 8 storey garment factory has three floors of illegal structures, no other three floor piles, and no heavy duty clothing machine that is designed to withstand eight floors.

It was reported that just hours before the incident, the workers told the building that the building was going to collapse, but the director rushed them into the factory and claimed that they would not pay wages if they did not enter the work.

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< p > this is the disaster of the garment manufacturing industry in Bangladesh after the fire of Tazreen garment factory which killed 121 people in November 2012.

Unfortunately, another fire broke out in a garment factory in Dhaka in May 8th, killing 8 people, including the general manager of the factory.

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The tragedy of P drew the Bangladesh garment manufacturing industry to the world's attention. People suddenly discovered that this South Asian country has surpassed India as the world's second largest clothing exporter in 2011, and the first is China.

The sweatshop building includes customers from Spain's Mango, Benetton of Italy, Ireland's Primark, Matalan, Bonmarche, C&A of Holland, KIK of Germany, Carrefour of France, Joe Fresh of Canada, and WAL-MART, Dress, Barn, Fresh, and so on.

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< p > the brands involved in the May 8th fire include Primark, Spain's Zara parent Inditex, Peacocks, Australia brand New Look, Point Zero, E. Leclerc and so on.

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The tragedy of P continued to shock the whole world. The European Union sent a delegation to Bangladesh. The brands involved were protested by public interest groups and human rights organizations. Canadian clothing retailers Loblaw Cos. and Primark have set up funds to help families of victims in the collapse of the building. Disney group said that the group's brand "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/ "target=" _blank "dress" /a "will no longer be manufactured in Bangladesh, and WAL-MART, Gap and children's wear company" said that it did not quit.

Bangladesh clothing manufacturers want brands to stay because 14 million families in the country rely on the garment industry to survive.

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< p > garment manufacturing is a pillar industry in Bangladesh.

Ten years ago, the clothing factory owner mentioned that Bangladesh would say they could only make beach pants and T-shirt.

Today, Bangladesh has been able to produce nearly all garments in large quantities, and the wages of workers are only 1/10 in China.

Today, Bangladesh's clothing industry has an annual output value of 20 billion US dollars, accounting for 77% of the total exports of the country, about half of which are exported to the European market.

Bangladesh has more than 4500 garment factories, most of which are OEM manufacturers of western famous clothing brands, and over 2 million 500 thousand women are workers in the garment industry.

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< p > according to the calculation, taking a shirt as an example, the labor cost in the United States is 7.47 dollars, and in Bangladesh it is 0.22 dollars.

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There is a saying in < p > Zhang Tonghe's work girl: "dying from poverty is a sin."

For young people living in garment factories in Southeast Asia, this is undoubtedly more appropriate.

Do you choose to die in poverty, starve to death, or be killed by a bad work environment in a clothing factory or accidentally die in a factory disaster? But it may also get out of the countryside, turn it into liberation, or even become a factory manager.

In many Third World countries, especially the Southeast Asian countries dominated by the knitting industry, they have been or are experiencing such a fashion disaster.

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Beyond the cruel exploitation, the garment manufacturing industry has derived some other businesses, P.

In an interview with the US national public radio program, Jim Yardley, a South Asian journalist, told New York Times that Bangladesh's clothing manufacturing industry had spawned corruption and triad forces. The collapsed building owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was a fearful and iron handed local tycoon. He even controlled her own private militia, and similar situations were everywhere in Bangladesh.

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Less than P, careful consumers have long discovered that in China's most famous international high street clothing brand store Zara and H&M, you can buy more than 5 producing countries' a href= "http://www.91se91.com/" target= _blank "clothes > /a" in one store: "today we have turned over five clothes in Zara, and the producing areas are: India, Romania, Turkey, Portugal and Morocco."

Even many Chinese consumers will choose clothes that are produced abroad rather than China.

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"P", "made in China" is still the most well-known label in manufacturing industry all over the world, but in fact, with the development of China's economy and the increase in labor costs, the garment manufacturing industry has long been developing towards lower and lower labor costs and land prices.

Take Zara as an example, the producing areas include Turkey, Bangladesh, Morocco, Vietnam, Indonesia, Portugal, China, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, etc.

H&M's cheap underwear has also been quietly pformed into India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Kampuchea and Turkey.

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The accusations of < p > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > sweatshops < /a > are concentrated in these countries, especially in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

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< p > American clothing retailer Gap in New Delhi, India, has been exposed to the employment of child labor sewing Gap Kids clothing, those 10 years old or so India boys not only get long hours of work without paying any reward, but also beaten and mistreated.

After reporting the street, Gap announced that it had removed all the clothes made in India under its more than 3000 stores.

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< p > there have been reports of Topshop's "sweatshop" inside the factory in Sri Lanka Town: "forty or fifty workers live in a very small dormitory, so they can't even turn around."

There are 985 workers in the factory, but there are only 10 toilets, 3 of which are often not available. "

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< p > as early as 2001, the American factory of Forever21, the US high street brand, was charged with no overtime pay and bad working conditions.

In 2008, a documentary on 3 sweatshop workers accused of Forever21's sweatshop made in Losangeles also won the twenty-ninth Emmy award winning best tracking report.

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< p > as for Zara, the Brazil factory of the brand was exposed to the scandal of slave labor.

In April of this year, in Argentina again fell into a "sweatshop" storm, a non-governmental organization La Alameda faction sneaked into the factory, secretly took pictures of the factory, and as clues to the police.

The working hours of workers are 7 hours to 23 hours a day, and the income is only 1.7% of the price of one garment.

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< p > because the design is close to the trend and the price is low, the high street brand has been developing rapidly in recent years and has been expanding all over the world. Even the long awaited Topshop recently opened its first branch in Hongkong.

In Paris, London, New York, Hongkong and Beijing, people can see the high street brand store as a vegetable market and clothes flying across the world.

When people look at different origins of the same brand label, they can't see the workers behind their names.

The development of high street "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_s.asp "> brand < /a > has led to the criticism of the fashion world for many years. In addition to" envy and jealousy hate ", it is probably one of the reasons for the prolonged shadow of" sweatshop "in the garment industry.

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