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  2. Sweatshop - Wikipedia

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    The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or underpaid. Employees in sweatshops may work long hours with unfair wages, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage; child labor laws may also be violated. Women make up 85 to 90% of sweatshop workers and may be forced by employers to take birth ...

  3. A history of fast fashion: ethical issues, high demand, and ...

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    The growth of fast fashion fueled environmental issues. Fast fashion's meteoric rise is apparent in retail giants like Shein and Uniqlo, which both saw more than 20% revenue growth between 2022 ...

  4. Can anything slow fast fashion down? Lawmakers are ... - AOL

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    Worldwide criticism of fast fashion’s waste, labor abuses and carbon emissions has done little to slow down the industry. But new legislation could alter the flood of goods — like the floral ...

  5. What is fast fashion, and why is it so controversial? - AOL

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    Generally, fast fashion designs are “dupes”— a popular term on social media used for garments inspired by (and in some cases, outright copied from) luxurious looks work by celebrities and ...

  6. Anti-sweatshop movement - Wikipedia

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    As corporations globalize, many sweatshop movements have begun to see "worker internationalization" as one of the only viable solution; however, this requires strong labor movements, sufficient resources, and a commitment to mobilizing all workers, including women, which can be difficult to do at an international scale, as has been the case in ...

  7. Sweatshop-free - Wikipedia

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    An investigation found some workers had to work 15 hours a day for £27 a month The "S" is for Sweatshop Apple Inc the world's most valuable technology multinational corporation has been accused that their contractors are forcing workers to do overtime involuntarily at sweatshop working conditions and employing underage workers in its factories.

  8. Study: NYC Retail Workers Underpaid, Too Few Have ... - AOL

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  9. Fast fashion - Wikipedia

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    There are more than 60 million workers that produce garments for fast fashion retail, and 80 percent of those workers are women. [ 42 ] MVO Netherlands researched in 2019 that workers' monthly wages in Ethiopia that manufacture for H&M , Gap , and JCPenney begins at $32 (equivalent to US$105 at U.S. prices), while an experienced worker is $122 ...