Children receive little or no reimbursement for their labour, perhaps a few US cents per kilo of cotton picked. However, payments are deducted to cover their travel to the fields and the food they are provided with during the cotton picking season, which can leave them in debt.
Children receive little or no reimbursement for their labour, perhaps a few US cents per kilo of cotton picked. However, payments are deducted to cover their travel to the fields and the food they are provided with during the cotton picking season, which can leave them in debt.
Fair-trade cotton was undoubtedly not top of retailers’ priorities in the recessionary 2009, but the Fairtrade Foundation is attempting to put ethical sourcing back on the fashion agenda, five years on from fair trade cotton’s inception.
Why are the health hazards in Asian ‘sweat shops” becoming worse?
We must do something to help push the manufacturers towards developing a more ecologically friendly industry and somehow influence them to produce garments that last! It’s not rocket science its just fashionable common-sense.
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