Sweatshop clothes

Do you buy clothes from companies who use sweatshop labor? I think it's one of the most devistating effects of glabalization, but everybody is entitled to their opinion.

 

Do you think the case could be made that it would be more ethical to offer financial support [through buying the slave clothes] and at the same time protesting [or finding something to do about] the contractors that are paying so little instead of deciding not to buy the clothes at all?

 

I probably do and you know what? I don't care. I like my clothes no matter where they came from.

 

Most of my clothes come out of charity shops. It's cheap, the money gets put to good use, and you usually find some much more interesting clothes there anyway.

 

I think because there's no stopping that kind of labour, we should buy the clothes, but ask for them to pay them more at least. That would be nice. The Gap actually started to pay their workers more, but I don't like their stuff.

 

Almost all of my clothes come from thrift stores or from garage sales.... I HATE Gap, Disney, Nike, JC Penny and all those big companies!!!

 

buy clothes made from hemp, they will last longer than cotton

 

Exactly.

 

ummm what if it was the other way around and YOU had to make a bunch of clothes and you were beaten and chained to machines all the time and you were extremely poor! and if you didn't work then you would get kicked out into the streets.

 

If you buy your clothes from thrift stores ..surely their is a multitude of diffrent makes and small brands that they have .. i wonder if you investigated they would be any better or worse than the 'big business' its so 'cool' to hate.. i would rather buy clothes that have public and professional scrutiny and for the best part are not as evil as people make out IMHO .. than some firm i have no clue about and maybe change their brand name every few years.

 

I loves me my sweatshop-made clothes. Cheap, and there's love in every stitch...

 

There is nothing wrong with sweatshop clothes or sweatshops.

Any American who has not witnessed sweatshops first hand has no right to commwnt on the conditions.

Sweatshops boost the economy and lower the crime rate of developing nations... they save people by providing such needed jobs.

 

Well it's not the other way around and I'm not the one who's doing it. Therefore, I won't even think about it.

 

This happens ... but like i said earlier i am more concerned about labels people have never heard of.. picking on bigger companies may raise the issues .. but it is the tip of the iceberg .. generaly i think It does as BraveSirBun says .. also its i think a fear of taking away jobs outsourcing and a need to make people in others countries seem a little put upon and what they do is wrong.. Sure i bet their are the companys that treat their workers worse than animals.. but we did the same thing in England not 100 years ago.. The local social ethics need changing , people running these bad 'sweatshops' need closing down .

 

It wasn't so very long ago that there were sweat shops in our cities,they have child labor laws now.That doesn't stop our companies from doing it in other countries to other peoples children though! Sure,it's a living & all that,but just think how hard it is on those kids! It's just not right,but, I sure don't know how to 'fix it' except by boycotting the companies 'til they pay better wages & have safer working conditions.They pay shit for their product to be made & sell it for a big profit to the vain,uncaring,pompous folks of the world! Can I get an Amen? ha!

 

It's frustrating, especially living in America... can't seem to buy a damn thing without finding out it's the fruit of exploited labors, or it's damaging to the environment, or it's filled with pesticides.

It's tough to eat out, it's tough to find cheap clothes that WEREN'T sewn by 7 year old's from the east, it's tough to buy health-wise products... it can realy suck to be socially and environmentally concious.

BUT... I think more and more people are becoming aware of this. The west coast now is up to a ton of good, and the east coast will undoubtidly follow, then it's on inward. Finally, people can live in America and still function in the society without feeling a forced bit of shame.

 

They are the largest corperations that use the most child labour.. Expecially the Gap and Nike

 

haaa haaa.. you have to be kidding me.. You know why it's a bad thing? ok little kids in most of the factories are chained to machines and beaten. They can't have a child life or a good future to look forward to because they are busy being beaten and getting not that much money an out.. Way below minimum wage. If they don't want to work then their parents normally just throw them out on the streets to fend for themselves... How can they have fun and enjoy life when they are walking around with raggedy clothes and trying to pay the rent. The parents are normally not supportive at all and they normally beat their kids as well. Eeven little girls when they are sewing they get bad arches in their feet and get their feet all swollen and everything and their hands get very weak and start to not work as well and sometimes they bleed from the needle accidently going into their hands because they are sewing so fast.. They have to sew fast in roder to get everything done in a good amount of time. Many children worked 16 hour days under atrocious conditions. children are put to work at the age of 5. Began work at age 5, and generally died before they were 25. The children began to have many deformaties.

 

I've never owned a pair of Nikes in my life.

 

Well then I guess it's a good thing that I am living in reality not your little hypothetical world.
I think you are taking the worst of the situation and not looking at all aspects of it.