Ethical Fashion and Labor Practices: A Case Study of Wal-Mart - Prof. Regina Root, Study notes of Hispanic American Literature

Download Ethical Fashion and Labor Practices: A Case Study of Wal-Mart - Prof. Regina Root and more Study notes Hispanic American Literature in PDF only on Docsity! No Sweat Apparel Patagonia American Apparel Ethical Threads Clean Clothes Campaign http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2004/oct/07/ethicalmoney.consumerpages Possible Ethical Stores: Abercrombie and Fitch Hollister Make nothing clear: Forever 21 Companies have the ability to continue to shirk responsibility because they don’t produce the clothes themselves. They “do not know” what the production practices are like because they are a third party supplier. “Wal-Mart strives to do business only with factories run legally and ethically. We continue to commit extensive resources to making the Wal-Mart system one of the very best. We require suppliers to ensure that every factory conforms to local workplace laws and that there is no illegal child labor or forced labor. Wal-Mart also works with independent monitoring firms to randomly inspect these factories to help ensure compliance. In fact, we conduct more than 200 factory inspections each week to ensure these facilities are being run legally and ethically. “ Made in the U.S.A? Despite a well-publicized "Made in the U.S.A." campaign, 85 percent of the stores' items are made overseas, often in Third World sweatshops. In fact, only after Wal-Mart's "Buy American" ad campaign was in full swing did the company become the country's largest importer of Chinese goods in any industry. By taking its orders abroad, Wal-Mart has forced many U.S. manufacturers out of business. The chain was broadly criticized for being the primary distributor of many goods attracting controversy, including Kathie Lee Gifford's clothing line, Disney's Haitian-made pajamas, child-produced clothing from Bangladesh and sweatshop-produced toys and sports gear from Asia. Difficult working conditions also exist in the United States: In 1991, labor inspectors found labels for Wal- Mart brands being made in Manhattan's Chinatown. There, 16 and 17 year-old Chinese immigrants without permits had been working for one month without being paid. http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/stores3.html http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/sweatshops.html Great chart!!!