by | Feb 19, 2016 | Living wage, News, reports, Resources - Living wage
Report: Do We Buy It?
A supply chain investigation into living wage commitments from M&S and H&M
This report looks into the stories behind two leading high-street brands who have made claims to be ensuring a fair living wage is possible for workers who make their clothes. H&M and M&S have received significant acclaim for headline commitments to a living wage. Real wages being paid in their factories however are not yet delivering on their promises.
Download the report here >>
Published February 2016.
by | Oct 27, 2015 | Resources - Shoes
Download our fact sheet about the Shoe industry here Fact sheet Shoes
by | Oct 22, 2015 | related, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Edited by Liz Parker for Fashioning an Ethical Industry (UK) and Marsha A Dickson for Educators for Socially Responsible Apparel Business (USA). This item is available to download or to order.
Bring sustainability and ethics into your teaching and, by doing so, motivate students to consider the people and environment when making decisions in their future careers. We have an opportunity to create a fashion industry we are proud of, and we hope this Handbook can contribute to the journey towards a sustainable industry.
This Handbook is divided into six chapters: Design, Marketing, Business, Cross-curricular, Pedagogy and Institutional Approaches, and Interactive Activities. Educators of any fashion related course will be able to draw inspiration from the 45 contributions by educators from around the world who have shared their experience of teaching on sustainability and ethics.
We recommend a minimum donation of £10.
Download the resource here sustainable fashion handbook (full version)
by | Oct 20, 2015 | education, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Step Into Her Trainers is a teaching pack aimed at Fashion & Textiles related courses, Citizenship, and Geography, at KS4, A-level and BTEC. This pack has been produced for the Playfair 2012 campaign, calling for better conditions for workers in sportswear and merchandise factories worldwide in the lead up to the Olympics in London 2012.
It has been published by Labour Behind the Label’s Fashioning an Ethical Industry project that aims to ensure future decision makers are informed and equipped to improve the conditions of millions of garment workers worldwide.
Labour Behind the Label (1st published 2010, revised 2011) Step Into Her Trainers (Bristol, UK 36 Pages).
Download here: Step Into her Trainers 2011
by | Oct 20, 2015 | Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
To learn more about sweatshops in the garment industry, students can stage their own sweatshop for charity, living through the experience of working in an exploitative garment factory in their own school, just for one day.
The students plan and lead their own project, deciding how to stage the one-day event, what product to manufacture, what rules to abide by (for example, ‘no talking’, ‘no toilet breaks’, which is common in the sweatshop world), and how to sell the product they have produced afterwards. All profits from this event go to Labour Behind the Label to support garment workers’ struggles for better working conditions in the real world.
Download resources:
Sweatshop Relay intro presentation
sweatshop relay pack for email
Sweatshop Relay Certificate 2015
