#Slave labor

[peachesingreece]

Reminder to avoid buying anything crochet new from big stores. Crochet (unlike knit) CANNOT be done by a machine and must be done by an actual human being. The person who made it was definitely not paid an appropriate amount for their labour. Most big stores use sweatshops anyway and I know it’s hard to completely avoid buying anything from a major store. But if those specific items don’t sell, we can send a message to companies that we don’t want items made fully by hand using slave labour

This summer, avoid any new crochet items. You don’t need THAT specific top that badly

[jackoshadows]

Shein: Fast-fashion workers paid 3p per garment for 18-hour days, undercover filming in China reveals

It is the biggest fast-fashion company in the world, making billions of pounds by unveiling thousands of new designs on its addictive website every day and selling them cheaper than anyone else. Now the first undercover investigation into factories supplying Shein, the Chinese retailer loved by millions of young women in the UK and around the globe, has exposed the disturbing experiences of workers making its clothes. Garment manufacturers in China are often working up to 18 hours a day, being paid as little as 3p per item, with no weekends and only one day off per month, a Channel 4 team has found.

This treatment of workers – who are fined two thirds of their daily wage if they make a single mistake – breaks not only Shein's code of conduct for suppliers but also Chinese labour laws. The company says it will investigate. A woman using the false name of Mei secretly filmed inside two factories where she took on jobs producing the kinds of tops that British shoppers can buy for as little as £1.49. The footage has been shared with i ahead of Untold: Inside the Shein Machine, streaming on All4 from Monday. Women in one factory are found to be washing their hair during their lunch breaks, as they have so little spare time outside of their long shifts. A man who started work at 8am, but is filmed sitting shirtless at his sewing machine after midnight, says he will not finish until 2am or 3am because he needs to complete his batch

Woods says Shein is "head and shoulders" above other fashion brands in the number of "dark patterns" it uses online. "These are behaviours on the website that force you into actions that you might not choose yourself," he explains. "Data is making marketing like a loaded weapon." Shein was contacted for comment by the documentary makers but did not respond on this matter. Data published on 6 April by The Business of Fashion showed that in the year to date, Shein had launched 314,877 separate designs in the US market, compared to 18,343 in the same period by Boohoo. This relentless onslaught suggests customers have more than 3,000 new styles to potentially view every day

The contact arranged for "Mei", one of the journalists in his network, to infiltrate the Shein supply chain in Guangzhou, a south-eastern city with a population of 14 million. Having seen what she discovered, he says: "I have been doing investigative stories in China for 15, 16 years – still [they] exploit workers like dogs. Basically it's worse than years ago."

[trump666traitor]

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Why I Quit Fashion

By Rachel Rebibo

In 90% of fashion editorials for magazines, everyone on the team is either paid next to nothing or NOTHING AT ALL.

Fashion editorials are essentially free branded content for billionaire parent companies which own the luxury designers that advertise in magazines.

Fashion magazines “claim” to have no money when they ask you to work for free, but that’s not entirely true. They do have money. They just usually spend it all on a totally baller photo shoot somewhere terribly remote and glamorous, then tell everyone else contributing to that issue that they have no budget. Editors will kindly inform you that of course there is no money for this shoot, then turn around and fly to fashion weeks around the world, happily gramming their $10,000 first class seats.

There’s something deeply psychologically manipulative about telling people that they should be so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with (insert magazine) that expecting to be compensated for said work is ridiculous.

Why on earth would so many of us would put up with this system? Because in theory the exposure you receive from shooting editorials and magazine covers is supposed to eventually lead to big bucks from massive advertising campaigns with swanky luxury brands.

Just recently I received an email from a Vogue (I won’t say which one but it’s big and European), where the editor asked permission to use an image of mine “for credit,” meaning that instead of paying me, they will simply include my name next to my photograph.

Credit doesn’t pay my rent, Vogue.

This shouldn’t need to be said, but if you are making money off of someone else’s work, you need to pay them for that work. Period.

Read the whole article: https://rachelrebibo.medium.com/why-i-quit-fashion-c2eef9f3066c

[vague-humanoid]

A Florida contractor was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison and ordered to repay more than a dozen workers he forced into slavery.

Bladimir Moreno, a Bartow farm labor contractor, pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to conspiracy to commit forced labor and racketeering charges, after federal prosecutors said he recruited workers in Mexico, made them pay to work for Los Villatoros Harvesting and lied about their housing and pay once they arrived in Florida, reported the Miami Herald.

LVH and its recruiters manipulated the workers by withholding their pay, violated federal law by moving them to an unapproved Florida farm, and then intermittently to Kentucky and Indiana, to harvest watermelons for Wachula’s Carlton Farms, which does business as Sun Fresh Farms, and that fruit was sold to Walmart and Kroger.

Other melons packed in Indiana were by a distributor to chains such as Kroger, Schnucks and Sam’s Club.

@dirhwangdaseul

[thoughtportal]

[thepeopleinpower]

Ignorance seems soo nice I can see why people would opt for that. Imagine consuming unethically without a care. Imagine living however you want and still be able to sleep at night. Imagine being unfamiliar with the concept of accountability.

[feline17ff]

Me: Oh that's so cool! My language has Caribbean dialects! I wonder how tho

*looks it up*

Slavery by any other name 🥲

[serious-ancient-slavery]

For those who are interested, here is an interesting analysis of the stirring music for the well-known rowing scene from the film Ben Hur (1959), composed Miklos Rosza especially for that scene on base of the rhythm of the strokes of the oars by the toiling galley slaves.

[aspiringbogwitch]

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday said prisoners in Alabama have been denied parole and forced to work jobs at fast food restaurants as part of a “labor-trafficking scheme” that generates $450 million a year for the state, according to a press release.

Ten former and current prisoners and labor unions that represent service workers filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Attorney General Steve Marshall, a beer distributor and several fast food companies. The lawsuit alleges the prison system makes money by deducting fees from the wages of prisoners. Private companies such as KFC, Wendy’s. Burger King and McDonalds get a steady supply of workers from the prison system, the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit claims the arrangement resembles convict leasing, a system that followed slavery in the South. Prisoners, many of whom were Black and had been arrested for violations of Jim Crow laws, could be forced to work dangerous or grueling jobs for private employers.

[delta-m]

I wish they actually cared about forced labor and not just getting political points with thinly veiled xenophobia.

[lostboy-ish]

All these TEMU adds....Guys it's SLAVE LABOR. you do not need a 49cent shirt that bad. Go to a thrift store I am.begging you. Save the planet and actual human life!!!

[nando161mando]

Pikmin had it figured out 20 years ago

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Conservatives hate the mnm characters because they think they're woke and defy gender roles and are proof that the west is in decline or whatever shit tucker carlson thinks up when he masturbates to the green one, but I hate the mnm characters because mars inc only ever talks about them to distract from the most heinous shit you've ever heard, like winning a lawsuit that allows them to turn their Cambodian slave orphans into soylent green to feed their Angolan slave orphans.