The PayUp campaign has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies owed to factories and workers, and they’re just getting started.
After three centuries, giant factories remain sites not only of production for use but of exploitation, class warfare and environmental degradation. The book author writes of how the factory still effects our dreams and nightmares.
Give away your Abercrombie & Fitch clothes to the homeless. Together, we can remake the A&F brand. Published on May 13, 2013.
Underneath global apparel's glitzy makeup lies an unglamorous underbelly - one of violent working conditions and structural faux pas. Case and point: factory fires. In September 2012, 300 garment workers lost their lives when a factory caught ablaze in Pakistan - two months later, 112 deaths after a similar tragedy in Bangladesh. Add China to the list, and 2012 will go on record as the deadliest year to be a garment worker.
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