Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops

I watched a documentary called Fashion's Dirty Secret on sweatshops running out of Leicester. Channel 4's dispatches secretly filmed for three months in textile factories. It showed poor working conditions and only being paid £2 an hour and being threatened with their jobs to work harder. They were making clothes for New Look, Jane Norman and other major high street brands. When The respective CEOs were asked of their knowledge they said that the orders had been subcontracted by the company they gave the order to. But if you know the company you are sending your orders to has a capacity of X amount, and you are sending them more than that, you know they will have to sub-contract. It's just a very convenient way for hight street retailers to escape the responsibilities, and possibly the guilt of using slave labour. One of the most interesting things I noticed about the documentary is that the workers in Leicester were sewing in care labels saying they were made in the Maldives.