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Sweatshop Chic: The Real Price of Low Cost Fashion
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Sweatshop Chic: The Real Price of Low Cost Fashion

2014 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Garment workers in Bangladesh and Cambodia describe what it actually costs to make the cheap clothes sold in Western stores. The film follows women stitching in cramped, poorly ventilated factory floors, earning wages that barely cover rent and food, while retailers thousands of miles away sell the finished shirts and jeans for a fraction of their markup. Interviews with workers, factory owners, and labor rights campaigners lay out the chain from cotton to storefront, showing where the money goes and where it doesn't. The Rana Plaza collapse and similar disasters hang over the discussion as evidence of how far factory owners will cut corners on safety when buyers demand ever-lower prices and faster turnaround. The film also questions consumers directly, asking whether cheap fashion is compatible with fair pay at all, or whether the two are structurally opposed. It closes without a tidy fix, leaving the trade-off between low prices and human cost squarely in view.