So while the essentially uncreative shirts sell for a price of around $70 each (45 pounds), the people making them are being financially exploited for a little less than $1 an hour (62 pence per hour). The shirts were being made and sold in association with the Fawcett Society (whose slogan is “Working for women’s rights since 1886”), who are now scrambling to make sense of the situation.

It just goes to show that a simple design and sentence you can agree with do not necessarily make the producers ethical, nor does it mean that people are really paying attention to what goes on in a supply chain. Abstractly standing for feminism (or equality) is different from making sure the workers producing your shirts are decently paid. It is quite likely that a chain of assurances distanced decision makers within the organization from ever being confronted with how merchandise is made: they just ask if it got a stamp of approval from a third-party.

Maybe this scandal will teach a little bit about corporate responsibility?

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