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  • A Sweatshop of One's Own

    An Exploration of Post-Slave-Labor American Fashion

    What if the crap-manufacturing industry collapses and all of the indentured servants the US employs there are no longer able to produce cheaply manufactured garments? What atrocities would Americans be forced to wear? To illustrate this predicament, I made my own wardrobe from scratch. Full story

  • Disasters Made in Bangladesh

    Why Poor People Are Still Dying for Our Cheap T-Shirts

    We still don’t know exactly how many of Swapna’s coworkers were killed at the Tazreen Fashions factory on November 24, 2012. She was sewing shorts—“half-pants,” they’re called in Bangladesh—when on the ground floor piles of yarn and acrylic fabric began to burn. Full story