WE MAKE CLOTHES SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO
Jan. 14th, 2009 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via Neatorama]: Fascinating post from Kelsey Timmerman, in which he introduces to you a few of the people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China and (yes) New York who work in clothing factories.
Sample:
Quote: “The workers at beauty salons make less than garment workers, but I will be an owner and make more.”
Nari works at a factory that makes blue jeans. She shares an 8’ X 12’ apartment with seven other girls. Four of the girls sleep on a bamboo bed and the other four sleep on the concrete floor. Nari irons jeans. It’s a job that she had to pay a $50 bribe – a month’s wage – to get. Fifty dollars is probably enough for one person in Cambodia to live on, but Nari, like many of the garment workers in Cambodia, supports her family of six. She is attending beauty school and hopes to open her own salon someday. She doesn’t like bowling.
Based on his new book Where am I Wearing: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes, out now.
Timmerman’s blog is here.
How the other half lives,
This is dF
Sample:
Nari
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Quote: “The workers at beauty salons make less than garment workers, but I will be an owner and make more.”
Nari works at a factory that makes blue jeans. She shares an 8’ X 12’ apartment with seven other girls. Four of the girls sleep on a bamboo bed and the other four sleep on the concrete floor. Nari irons jeans. It’s a job that she had to pay a $50 bribe – a month’s wage – to get. Fifty dollars is probably enough for one person in Cambodia to live on, but Nari, like many of the garment workers in Cambodia, supports her family of six. She is attending beauty school and hopes to open her own salon someday. She doesn’t like bowling.
Based on his new book Where am I Wearing: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes, out now.
Timmerman’s blog is here.
How the other half lives,
This is dF
