aggregation and commentary on emerging online media relevant to stratification and inequality
Thursday, January 2, 2014
the clothes on your back
Several months ago, The Toronto Star published a series of articles and videos on the global supply-production-consumption chain of clothing, The Clothes on Your Back. The series examines such interrelated topics as slave labor in Uzbekistan cotton fields, clothing production in Asian sweatshops--particularly involving child labor, and the current retail boom in Canada.
Labels:
Canada,
capitalism,
child labor,
exploitation,
globalization,
labor,
poverty,
sweatshop,
video
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