If your clothes are cheap, they’re definitely made using prison labour/sweat shops.
I’m sure the good people at Regatta will fully investigate with their suppliers.
I wouldn’t rate regatta clothing against M&S and next. However they are all made in China these days. So quality has gone down. Not unlike fast fashion, it’s sad we live in a consumer society. Always some one at the other end is suffering unpleasant conditions for 29p an hour
Slavery never ended, it just moved to countries lower down the food chain so you don’t really notice it unless you look/care (and most people don’t). Your clothes are made by Chinese prisoners (many of them imprisoned because they said the wrong thing or worship the wrong god). If you have a top brand smartphone it was probably assembled in a factory where conditions and pay are similar to (or worse than) Victorian Era British factories where workers were exploited to the max, and the materials it’s made from were mined in Africa, by kids, on work sites with terrible mortality rates, where workers are paid enough to buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day (they might also be getting whipped by their Chinese masters if they don’t work fast enough).
Regatta and the clothing brands don’t give a toss. This has been going on for decades, if it’s not prisons, it’s an overcrowded, badly built Bangladeshi sweatshop.
But of course, they’ll be sure to signal their virtue by posting the LGBT flag or posting Black Lives Matter on Twitter to distract the mouth breathers from their sweatshops and slave labour.
Any prisoner who has lost his ID in the last few months: *uh oh*
I literally buy most of my clothes from local charity shops. Yes it was likely made in a sweatshop but the original company gets fuck all and the charity gets the cash.
Why pick on China?
A whole bunch of brands use US Prison Labour including:
McDonalds, IBM, Whole Foods, Victoria Secrets, Walmart, AT&T, Starbucks, Microsoft and Nike.
Slavery never went away, it just got hidden behind bars to make it more palatable to the middle classes.
There needs to be actual financial and criminal repercussions for organisations that provide goods made using slave labour.
>The Guardian is not naming the individual or the prison to protect their safety.
But they still posted a picture of the ID with a lot of identifying information in the image. They should’ve blacked out more than their face.
What I don’t understand about this is why – when she found what she thought was a manufacturing fault – she took scissors to the jacket instead of just returning it.
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If your clothes are cheap, they’re definitely made using prison labour/sweat shops.
I’m sure the good people at Regatta will fully investigate with their suppliers.
I wouldn’t rate regatta clothing against M&S and next. However they are all made in China these days. So quality has gone down. Not unlike fast fashion, it’s sad we live in a consumer society. Always some one at the other end is suffering unpleasant conditions for 29p an hour
Slavery never ended, it just moved to countries lower down the food chain so you don’t really notice it unless you look/care (and most people don’t). Your clothes are made by Chinese prisoners (many of them imprisoned because they said the wrong thing or worship the wrong god). If you have a top brand smartphone it was probably assembled in a factory where conditions and pay are similar to (or worse than) Victorian Era British factories where workers were exploited to the max, and the materials it’s made from were mined in Africa, by kids, on work sites with terrible mortality rates, where workers are paid enough to buy a bowl of rice at the end of the day (they might also be getting whipped by their Chinese masters if they don’t work fast enough).
Regatta and the clothing brands don’t give a toss. This has been going on for decades, if it’s not prisons, it’s an overcrowded, badly built Bangladeshi sweatshop.
But of course, they’ll be sure to signal their virtue by posting the LGBT flag or posting Black Lives Matter on Twitter to distract the mouth breathers from their sweatshops and slave labour.
Any prisoner who has lost his ID in the last few months: *uh oh*
I literally buy most of my clothes from local charity shops. Yes it was likely made in a sweatshop but the original company gets fuck all and the charity gets the cash.
Why pick on China?
A whole bunch of brands use US Prison Labour including:
McDonalds, IBM, Whole Foods, Victoria Secrets, Walmart, AT&T, Starbucks, Microsoft and Nike.
Slavery never went away, it just got hidden behind bars to make it more palatable to the middle classes.
There needs to be actual financial and criminal repercussions for organisations that provide goods made using slave labour.
>The Guardian is not naming the individual or the prison to protect their safety.
But they still posted a picture of the ID with a lot of identifying information in the image. They should’ve blacked out more than their face.
What I don’t understand about this is why – when she found what she thought was a manufacturing fault – she took scissors to the jacket instead of just returning it.