Category / Child workers
A Fashion World turned inside out
Our founders Adam Morris Philp and Simon de Tusch-Lec state in their feature article published in the Danish newspaper Politiken that: “It is in our interest as consumers to examine the blind spot in…
Repost: 5 Truths the Fast Fashion Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The fashion industry gets a lot of flack these days. The excess, the overtly sexual advertising, the humanitarian issues, the waste, the lawsuits, the list goes on. The industry giants have dedicated…
Child labor falls 64% in India over last decade
Flickr: ILO in Asia and the Pacific In 2011, 4.5 million were working in India, compared to 12.6 million a decade before, according to the country’s labor minister. A 2015 estimate from the International Labor…
Child Labour Experiment
Millions of children work in the textile supply chains worldwide. Fashion Revolution says enough is enough. As part of a social experiment, Fashion Revolution used hidden cameras to secretly film how the…
Whose backs are we standing on?
Written by Lewit Gemida Source: Global Citizen To many, child labor probably sounds like a thing of the past; a horrible consequence of rampant capitalism that countries like the United States managed…
How can Lidl sell jeans for £5.99?
Written by Gethin Chamberlain Source: The Observer Abracadabra! “Jean genie Lidl magics up £5.99 denims,” shouted the headline in a newspaper last weekend as it extolled the brilliance of the cut-price supermarket chain…
Child Labour exists because we let it exist
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says that “Child labour is any work done by a child that may be harmful to their physical, emotional, intellectual and social development.” Despite…
Fashions fade, style is eternal
Fanny pack beard pop-up twee tote bag DIY. Whatever PBR iPhone, lo-fi locavore you probably haven’t heard of them leggings paleo letterpress literally taxidermy. Tote bag hashtag Williamsburg, cronut salvia Thundercats gentrify…