How clothes on the UK high street are so cheap
The cheap clothes on the UK high street are cheap thanks to paying workers half what they need to live in sweatshops:
Let’s Clean up Fashion … checking the sourcing policies of 23 national retailers. Only three accepted the need for a significant improvement in pay and had “apparent genuine plans” to do so: Gap, New Look and Next. Twelve retailers did not respond – Bhs, Diesel, House of Fraser, Kookai, Matalan, Mk One, Moss Bros, Mothercare, Peacocks/Bon Marche, River Island, Rohan Designs and Ted Baker. One Bangladeshi worker, Mohua, who earns about £16 a month making clothes for Asda and Tesco, told researchers: “The wages I get are not enough to cover the cost of food, house rent and medicine.” In Sri Lanka, workers sewing school dresses for M&S received just 10p of its £6 retail value.
Wow. Looks like I’ll be shopping at Gap, New Look and Next, then.
The How clothes on the UK high street are so cheap by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
September 20, 2007 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts
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