Observer's article child slave labour producing our cheap clothes

[winterdays]

Today's article "Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don't care about child slave labour" made me very sad and uncomfortable. Any one else like to add their voice to make this a mumsnet campaign

Link www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/28/india-sweated-labour

yes. I'd rather buy 2nd hand than buy in places that don't look after their workers.

It won't just be clothes either though will it?

How to extract oneself from this?

A sad reflection of our times and the value of fast cash over ethics.

I know toasted. :( But I guess the more we campaign, the more companies will keep the issue in mind maybe? dunno.

Sad thing is that just a few pence extra per item would make an enormous difference to the workers.

I want my clothes made by people working for a fair wage for no more than 40-50 hours per week in safe conditions and it seems that the extra cost per item would be trivial or a quid an item at most.

Why isn't this happening? Most people in this country have far too many clothes and almost everyone can afford a few pence extra to help people who are much much poorer than everybody in the west.

i havent read the article, but i thought it was only an extra few pence per item to increase wages? and child labour should just be illegal, so why are comoanies using them? sounds like unethical retail industry problem, not consumer trying to save 10p. 10p is just 10p to me, i would pay it, but i inly buy 10 tshirts a year, total cost to me a quid. industry sells 10 million ? tshirts a year, total cost to them a million

actually, that title of their article is really annoying!

The title is annoying. I do care about it but have no idea which(if any) brands/shops I should avoid.

I don't shop in Primark because I hate it, so that's probably some bases covered.