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Boohoo under fire, over 1.1 billion pounds wiped off company value

Boohoo has come under intense scrutiny in the past week, despite sales soaring during the pandemic. At the end of June the company announced a controversial payout scheme which would see its management team net 150 million pounds. Earlier this week allegations of modern slavery surfaced, pertaining to one of its Leicester suppliers, which...

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Pop-up Sweatshop urges the Fashion Industry to be more Transparent

Amsterdam - It almost seems unfathomable that a global industry which generated 1.5 trillion euros in revenues last year does not pay a living wage to all its workers. Yet this is the reality for a large majority of the 60 million people employed in the fashion industry supply chain. In countries like Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia, millions of...

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The Mad Rush brings the ‘sweatshop’ to the high street

A new concept, store is set to open its doors today on the popular shopping street de Kalverstraat, in Amsterdam known as the Mad Rush. A cute window display featuring cacti alongside of trendy and fashionable items from high street retailers underneath a discount sign ensures that the Mad Rush is certainly appealing to consumers. However, what...

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H&M says controversial 'child labour' film is a Fake

Swedish value retailer has responded to the controversial short-film posted online by German blogger duo, David Kurt Karl Roth and Carl Jakob Haupt, which reportedly depicts children in factories making the Alexander Wang x H&M collection. The film, which appeared last week online on the duo's blog Dandy Diary, was said to have been made in...

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Taking Liberties: The story behind the UK high street

Some of the biggest names on the British high street use Indian sweatshops which pay poverty wages and break labour laws to keep costs to a bare minimum, according to a new report.Surveying the garment industry in Gurgaon, India, it shows that the workers making clothes for higher end retailers - M&S, Debenhams, Arcadia, Monsoon and NEXT – are...

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UK High street employs sweatshop workers

Fast fashion, cheap labour, so the slogan goes. Some of the biggest names on the British high street are still contracting factories who continue to abuse human rights. An Observer investigation has found staff at an Indian supplier to Gap, Next and Marks & Spencer working up to 16 hours a day. M&S, Gap and Next have all launched their own...