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October 30, 2023 - Tens of thousands of striking garment workers took to the streets in Bangladesh, demanding fair wages. Many of the workers make clothes for big Western brands, but get paid only around 75 dollars a month. The unions are demanding a tripling of the wage. [video]/[video]
March 8, 1926: Fur strikers attempt to demonstrate after the fashion of the Passaic, New Jersey worsted mill workers. Members of the striking fur workers gathered at Union Square and, forming in marching order, several thousand strong, picketed the fur district around 7th Avenue and 26th St. Police finally broke up the demonstration and arrested 125 strikers, including 26 women.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
Celebrating garment workers on "Met Gala Monday"....
Because fashion is more than clothes—it’s the people who made them.
Tens of thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh who make products for brands like Zara, H&M and GAP are on strike. Their minimum wag
It fr feels like we are in a workers rights revolution!
Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
March 25, 1911 was the date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. We marked the centennial a few years ago here on Travalanche, along with the fact that there was an off-Broadway play up about it at the time. This year we have timely and terrifying reason to bring it up again. It’s not a complicated story. The place was a garment factory, located on the top three floors of a ten story…
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Anyone who thinks you can automate sewing has never sewed. It's so physical in such a bespoke and microadjusting way. Try to get a machine to pin two pant legs together that are slightly different lengths intentionally and one needs to stretch but there's also slightly different curves and also one piece has a wrinkle putting it together because you've sewed edges of two pieces together that aren't the same width.
And you have to go between sewing and pinning to get everything as flat as possible. And also the fabric has to stay perfectly lined up even though it wants to drift apart and you're constantly adjusting them by millimeters as you feed it.
Machines cannot do all this. They can't make all those decisions on the fly with such inherently physical and inconsistent pieces.
I'm sick of tech bros acting like the solution to poor labor conditions, unfair wages, and devaluing of very skilled labor is to get machines to do a piss poor job.
It's also traditionally women's work and there's so much misogyny in devaluing the skill. Of course it's mostly men who don't even know how to examine the stitching on their clothes let alone actually do the work.
Fuck them all.
And remember that ALL clothing is handmade.
There should be a Gordon Ramsey that goes after crappy fast fashion businesses and they scream shit like:
“THIS TOP HAS SO MANY HOLES ITS GOING TO SQUIDWARDS HOUSE TO FUCK WITH HIM!”
“DO YOU ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE GARMENT WORKERS HERE?! BECAUSE THIS FACTORY SMELLS LIKE A HORSE HAVING DIARRHEA!!!”
“YOU NEED TO PAY THESE WOMEN PROPERLY AND NOT HAVE THEM MAKE FIFTY FUCKING SKIRTS THAT LOOK LIKE CHEAP DONKEY SHIT!!”
“LOOK AT ALL THESE CHEMICALS!!! WOULD YOU WEAR THIS BULLSHIT AND GET ASS CANCER FROM IT FOR THE TREND???!!!!”
At the CEOs of these companies
Members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) at Unity Camp
(Hansel Mieth. 1938)
