Does Econscious Meet Its Promises?
Econscious is a new supplier of garments for print-on-demand giant CafePress. Many designers are thus attracted to its promises of clothes made in an environmentally friendly and ethically responsible manner.
But shirts stitched and goods assembled in China and Pakistan under a totalitarian regimes, and shipped halfway around the world? Can that really be environmentally friendly? Is that really ethical?
Econscious Watch doesn't have all the answers, but at least we're asking these important questions.
But shirts stitched and goods assembled in China and Pakistan under a totalitarian regimes, and shipped halfway around the world? Can that really be environmentally friendly? Is that really ethical?
Econscious Watch doesn't have all the answers, but at least we're asking these important questions.
Examining Econsciousness
Articles that examine whether Econscious is really as ethical as it claims to be
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Econscious gets cheap labor in Pakistan. What are the costs to the Pakistanis?
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Fair Labor Links
Research the issues of labor abuse in the countries where Econscious sets up shop
- Sweatshops are Slavery
- ...from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
- World Wide Sweatshops
- World Wide Sweatshops reports on abuses in China
- China Labor Watch
- Keeping an eye on working conditions in China
- National Labor Committee
- Articles about working conditions in China
- Secrets, Lies, And Sweatshops
- Are conditions getting better, or are the coverups just more complete?
Books About Monitoring Sweatshop Labor
Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/11/2009) 
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Amazon Price: $12.87 (as of 12/11/2009)
No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Amazon Price: (as of 12/11/2009)
Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry
Amazon Price: $23.18 (as of 12/11/2009)
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