Fast Fashion’s ‘Cheap Labor’: Under the Pandemic, Global Garment Industry’s Women Workers Pay the Price - Women’s Media Center

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The pandemic has further revealed how workers in the global garment industry — especially women, who make up nearly three-quarters of garment workers — are sacrificed as economic collateral, and how fast fashion prioritizes profits over people.

reports of domestic violence across Indonesia, resulting in more and more women facing abuse both in the home and in the workplace.

“There’s a saying that if you work in the garment sector and you don’t get sexually or verbally abused, you’re not working there,” Septi said. “It’s just the risk of working in the industry.”While workers across Indonesia have been laid off or furloughed because of the effects of COVID-19 — in the Sukabumi region of West Java, a textile and apparel center,— others have continued to work, often with reduced hours and usually in unsafe conditions.

— after they have completed certain online training programs. Septi said the program works against those who are not technologically literate, and many — including garment workers — have struggled to simply upload their photo identification. “It is the right time for them to give back — which is an understatement — to the workers who have been making them a profit for the past 30 years,” she said. “This concerns people’s lives, not just the benefit of their work.”The city of Tiruppur, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is known as the “T-shirt factory of the world.” In Tiruppur, garment workers cut and sew T-shirts, sweatpants, and other apparel for some 200 brands, including Walmart, Levi’s, and Adidas.

 

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