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“The issues that led to the formation of strong garment and textile workers unions in the industrialized world of the nineteenth century remain important throughout the world”

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“workers in industrialized nations became apprehensive about working conditions in developing countries and sought ‘to establish minimum labor standards by international agreement’”

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“He recalled the cruel bosses who
forbade employees from speaking, sitting down, or opening a window to combat the
extreme heat”

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Conditions in factories were bad for workers and many countries have created standards to keep them safe.

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“Once a potent force in the textile and apparel industries, labor unions have been on the decline in the post–World War II

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"It did not seem possible that a human being turned into such a mere mechanical organism could live. To the dressmaker it did not seem possible that this one could exist long under such conditions"

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“But this apparently bottomless consumerism not only depletes the world’s resources, it also depletes our inner resources.”

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“It may be that there is no other way to depict relationships when the ultimate goal is to sell products.” (

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“Advertising encourages us not only to objectify each other but to feel passion for products rather than our partners.”

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Consumers also play a crucial role in upholding labor standards.

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These coercive practices include demanding the lowest possible prices while placing large orders, setting unrealistic turnaround times, and switching suppliers whenever another factory can do the job for less.

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Connects in the way that one author describes the issue's and unfair practices they go through, these issues is what another author mentions is what brings all garment workers together, this is important due to their concerns soon being heard and hopefully have something done.

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Advertisements for clothes is what persuades consumers to idolize those objects more than actual human connections. The other author emphasizes how we should pay more attention on how these workers cannot continue to work under these conditions.

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Both authors show that it not only the companies that have a big influence on workers, consumers (the people who buy the clothes) are one of our main reasons, there is a disconnection between the consumer and the clothes, favoring objects not considering the people suffering/going through the abuse.