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''Ethical Shopping, Ethical Clothing'' Series to Help Inform Consumers
''Ethical Shopping, Ethical Clothing'' Series to Help Inform Consumers
Published 03-08-06
Submitted by LotusOrganics.com
The global apparel industry is valued at roughly $390 billion. The number of garments purchased by American consumers has increased 73% between 1996 and 2001, while apparel prices have fallen 10% over the past decade. "Always Low Prices" comes largely at the expense of poor, uneducated garment workers in developing countries who have been trapped in a system of servitude and sweatshop conditions. Boycotts, picketing, letter writing campaigns, and a barrage of unfavorable publicity in the late 1990's and early 2000's forced many large name clothing chains to adopt "Corporate Social Responsibility" policies requiring their clothing manufacturers and suppliers to provide fair wages and safe working conditions to their employees.
The first in the "Ethical Shopping, Ethical Clothing" series explores issues of sweatshop conditions and how many manufacturing corporations and countries use a variety of laws and legalistic definitions of "employees" to hide the true extent of a vast underpaid labor force that lies below the radar of government regulations and "Corporate Social Responsibility" policies.
The second in the series examines ethical shopping and the rise, benefits and limitations of Fair Trade policies and organizations, while the third in the series examines ethical clothing, the concerns of animal rights organizations for the ethical treatment of animals, and the growing movement of eco-friendly and animal-friendly designers such as Stella McCartney and Hemandt Trevedi.
The intent of the three-part series "Ethical Shopping, Ethical Clothing" is to give clothing shoppers the information that they need to make informed decisions about the ethics of garment manufactures and clothing companies.
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