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This module has been an introduction to the labour issues throughout the textile and garment industries.
Amazingly, despite many technological advances over the past 100 years, garment production does not look so different from how it looked a century ago.
Yet today, the fashion and textile industry is heavily globalised. While apparel production has led to economic development for many countries, the personal toll on workers is high.
And the labour abuses of a century ago continue to occur.
Garment production in the early twentieth century; garment production in the early twenty-first century
Reflection questions:
Reflection questions:
Do you feel Australian consumers already know about these issues?
If not, how can we raise consumer awareness of these issues?
What would it take to change behaviour?
Where does responsibility really lie - with the consumers to change their buying behaviour? With brands who sell clothes at such low prices? Or with governments to put in place stronger labour laws?
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