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4/20/19
The first time I heard about sweatshops was around elementary school. I heard many rumors including that people worked long grueling hours without breaks, children worked in Nike sweatshops making shoes, and that sweatshop workers made less than a dollar a day. At this point, I associated that these rumors had to be connected to third world countries, including Asian countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and India. William J. Holstein et al.'s article, "Santa's Workshop," it starts off with a small list of examples that show certain workshops from around the world work under unfair conditions to create products for a toy shop in the US. The list mentions countries like China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, which makes me think of how globalized fashion and its commodity chain is. It is crazy how the profits of fashion are spread on an unbalanced scale with consumer countries, like the US, taking most of it, while third world countries barely benefit from it. When the article mentions Levi's more socially conscious approach to the supply chain, I felt hope that their practices could become a trend for more prominent clothing brands to follow suit. The main benefits I see from a more socially conscious approach is that not only do the brands' products increase in quality, the quality of life from the bottom of the supply chain also increases.
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