Toxic Labels. The Dark Side of Outsourcing
Description
Western consumers are accustomed to buying low-cost garments, but in global terms there is a larger price to be paid-a price in human health, security, and dignity. It seems that many manufacturers still rely on dubious production models, benefitting from "legal" child labor in overseas factories or from a cruelty that afflicts victims of all ages-forced labor, also known as slavery. This program enters the sweatshops of Bangladesh, where girls like 12-year-old Khadija endure 60-hour work weeks. In Dhaka viewers meet Hanan, one of a growing number of laborers with diseased lungs, a result of his years spent sandblasting denim. Returning to Europe, the film accesses a confidential document from Inditex, owners of Zara, showing that every one of their Indian suppliers was graded D (the worst possible score) for breeches of their ethical charter. Can the virtuous claims of big-brand retail companies be trusted? ?
Runtime
56 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Wealth (179)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Business ethics (382)
- Work and family (89)
- Globalization (272)
- Social classes (184)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2012
Database
Films on Demand
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