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artIclEs

McDougall, D. (2007) ‘Child Sweatshop shame threatens
Gap’s ethical image’ [Internet] The Observer. Available
at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oct/28/
ethicalbusiness.india

Newell, C. and Winnett, R. (2007) ‘Revealed: Topshop
clothes made with ‘slave labour’’ [Internet] The Sunday
Times. Available at: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
life_and_style/women/fashion/article2241665.ece

FIlM

China Blue (2005) Dir. Micha X Peled, Teddy Bear
Films Production

wEB

http://www.cleanclothes.org
http://www.nosweat.org.uk

prIMary rEsEarch - IntErVIEws

Carried out with designers and manufacturing companies

case study 2

studEnt: carolIna goMEz-auBErt

“Old Rules to New Gems: Can El Salvador Sustain and
Develop Home Grown Design?

This thesis evaluates the current textile industry in El
Salvador, ‘maquilas’ (factories) closing down, thirty thousand
unemployed women and lack of product differentiation
in the craft sector. The possibilities for the industry to
survive and thrive are juxtaposed with successful craft/
handmade driven businesses in Brazil and the United
States. The analysis uncovers other underlying issues such
as bootlegging and monetary consignments from abroad
as a deterrent for the development of Salvadorian design.
Resulting in a strategy that not only combines the mass-
produced with handmade elements but also empowers
women in the Salvadorian economy.” (Carolina Gomez-
Aubert, 2008)

sElEctEd KEy tExts and othEr rEsEarch

Fatemi, K. (1990) The Maquiladora Industry: Economic

solution or problem? NY: Praeger Publishers

Glanville, A. (2002) Economics from a Global Perspective,

London: Routledge

Howard, A. (2007) ‘Labor, history and sweatshops in the

new global economy’ in Livingstone, J. and Ploof, J. (eds.) The

Object of Labor: Art, cloth and cultural production, Chicago:

School of the Art Institute Chicago Press, pp. 31-50

Marx, K. (transl. Fowkes, B.) (1992) Capital Vol. 1: A critique of

political economy, London: Penguin Publishing

Root, R. (ed.) (2005) The Latin American Fashion Reader,

Oxford: Berg

SubRosa, (2006) ‘Can you see us now? Ya nos Pueden Ver?’

in Livingstone, J. and Ploof, J. (eds.) The Object of Labor: Art,

cloth and cultural production, Chicago: School of the Art

Institute Chicago Press, pp. 80-88

prIMary rEsEarch

Interviews with: the owner of Los Capellanos, San Salvador,

El Slavador; a former owner of a maquila; an employee of

Los Capellanos, San Salvador, El Salvador.

case study 3

studEnt: rEBEcca holE

“Putting The Love Back Into Fashion: ‘How can fashion/

textile designers use ‘Emotionally Durable Design’ to help

slow down fashion?

This study looks at how you can develop empathy for

special items of clothing, and how designers could use

Emotionally Durable Design to prolong the life of a

garment to help slow down fast fashion by increasing the

durability of relationships established between users and

product. This could be through relating to the individual’s

experience of a garment, producing something unique and

well made, through traceability of stories and histories or

just something that makes the consumer feel special...

hopefully resulting in a wardrobe full of cherished clothes.”

(Rebecca Hole, 2008)

pEdagogy and InstItutIonal approachEs