The Human Cost of Fashion: Wages, Exploitation & Workers’ Rights
Behind every garment is a worker whose rights, wages, and well-being are often overlooked. This page uncovers the harsh realities of the fashion industry, from wage theft and gender pay gaps to child labor and poverty wages. Explore the fight for a living wage, the hidden struggles of garment workers, and reflections on major industry disasters like Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza collapse—10 years on. Through reels, articles, and poetry, these resources shed light on the urgent need for ethical labor practices and a fashion industry that values people as much as profit.
Reel: Who’s Behind the Seams for IWD
Behind the Seams: The Women of the Fashion Industry — the often unseen hands, hearts, and minds shaping every stitch, story, and system that defines the clothes we wear.
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The Gender Pay Gap in Fashion
The gender pay gap in the apparel industry reflects deep-rooted inequalities—where women, who make up the vast majority of the workforce, are often underpaid, undervalued, and overlooked across the supply chain, from factory floors to boardrooms.
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Threat to Garment Workers Safety
Garment workers around the world experience low wages and exploitation, often working long hours in unsafe conditions with little job security or legal protection—all to fuel the fast fashion cycle and meet the relentless demand for cheap clothing.
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Child labour: ‘willfully ignorant’ memory
Why people conveniently ‘forget’ that child labour made their jeans speaks to the uncomfortable truth of willful ignorance—where marketing gloss, low prices, and consumer detachment help mask the exploitation woven into the seams of everyday fashion.
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Living wage not minimum wage
Living wage, not minimum wage! Because no one should have to choose between food, shelter, and dignity just to make the clothes the world wears.
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Worst Wage Theft – Remake Our World Win!
YOUR VOICE HOLDS POWER! How collective action ✊helped 200,000 garment workers in Karnataka get their wages back.
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