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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
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.
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Canada,
capitalism,
child labor,
exploitation,
globalization,
labor,
poverty,
sweatshop,
video
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