There aren’t many places in the U.S. where workers sit at sewing machines and make clothes by hand. hereandnow took a look inside one American factory where they do.
Because of the planning that goes into making and selling clothes on a global scale, 15% of every production run ends up in the trash, she says.
A newspaper clipping about the opening of Good Clothing Company hangs on the wall at the Fall River factory. Workers are still subjecting themselves to violence and unsafe working conditions to make clothes, says Carry Somers, founder and global operations director for nonprofit Fashion Revolution.in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia — which found 5% of workers reported being hit on the job and 40% of workers in Bangladesh had seen a fire in their workplace, she says.
Making clothing is a labor-intensive process that requires many workers using sewing machines, so companies calculated that they could lower costs by moving apparel production to China, she says. Now, she says automation gives companies less incentive to move abroad.But according to Nancy Hodges, who heads the Department of Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, automation still isn’t as cost-effective as human labor.
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