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Beyoncé clothing range is made by 'sweat shop labourers on £4.30 a day'17 MAY 2016 7:54AM
Beyoncés new range of womens sportswear is made using sweat shop labourers who earn as little as £4.30 a day, it has been reported.
The American pop stars Ivy Park gym gear is sold by Top Shop, the high street fashion retailer owned by Sir Philip Green, who is already facing criticism over the collapse of department store BHS.
The Sun on Sunday reported the clothing range which Beyoncé said she hopes will support and inspire women is made by Sri Lankan seamstresses some of whom earn £4.30 a day.
A 22-year-old seamstress told the Sun on Sunday she earned 18,500 rupees (£87.260 a month, which is about half the Sri Lankan average wage, for a nine and three-quarter hour shift, five days a week, plus overtime.
Beyoncé and husband Jay Z, the rapper, are worth a combined £760 million.
Jakub Sobik, from the charity Anti-Slavery International, said: This is a form of sweat shop slavery.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/15/beyonc-clothing-range-is-made-by-sweat-shop-labourers-on-430-a-d/
closeupready
(29,503 posts)to efforts in Haiti to recover from the earthquake. Still, I can't square that earlier decision to perform (pre-earthquake) for $ for someone like that. And given her high profile and connections, there can't be any question that she knew the ethics of doing so was dubious.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/03/beyonce-donated-gaddafi-money-haiti
So I'm not much of a fan.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)so maybe she can 'empower women'' sewing her overpriced clothing line
by raising their wages a little
I didn't say I was a fan
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Mostly, they don't, and I don't think she'll change how she does stuff.
Is she successful? How can anyone argue she's not? She's worth how many hundreds of millions of $$$?
Being successful is not the point, IMO. Being ETHICAL is the point, IMO - plenty of money to be made in paying workers minimum wage while making them do the work of 10 employees. But those who do so are held to account - i.e., Walmart vs. Costco. If she wants to be a one-woman Walmart of the entertainment industry, that's not illegal, but then people will move on from this Beyoncé-worship.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Good job!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And I'm even less of one now.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Just don't think she's all that great. I think she's annoying.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)I think it's important to remember that when celebrities put their names on products, they generally have no idea about the production of them. I hope that she will use her power to influence change here.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)She knows.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)She may have asked about it once or twice, and had smoke blown up her gorgeous ass each time. I'm sure someone mentioned the problem to her today as part of her daily PR briefing, but she's on tour in Seattle tonight and is presumably otherwise engaged.
She's not the COO or CFO. She's the figurehead of a branded line made by another corporation, and as such, plausible deniability is a valuable tool.
Just like Trump!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)..... maybe she didn't think about how clothes come to be. Most people don't.
But if you are putting your name on clothes and manufacturing them in your name for your company, it might be a good idea to see how these things are produced....y'think?
I'm sure she has some idea for a look.... then someone who knows how to design works it out for her.... then someone who knows how to cut it works that out for her.... and so on down to the person who figures out exactly how it will be put together.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Come on, geez
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...the production costs of her line are, you know nothing of how the garment industry functions.
If Beyonce could get her line produced for even less, she would.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Carolina. She said some stuff about equality while legitimizing inequality and of course, cashing that fact check that she and Mr Carter need so badly.
Performers who did boycott North Carolina include: Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Moore, and Joel McHale.
Big Stars who showed up for NC: Beyonce and Jimmy Buffet.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)He issued a statement saying they didn't want to penalize fans who had already bought tickets, and that future shows in NC would depend on repeal of HB2.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)are also valuable methods of protest. I tend to favor 'I won't show up' but I can see the thinking behind 'I show up and mouth off' as well.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)made. Even people who do care are often surprised when they start reading tags and learn more about where and how stuff is made.