Nigel's Writing Class

Title: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world Class number : 20420  Student name : Ho Eun Lee              These days, we cannot do anything with 1$ because of excessively high prices. If I say that a worker who lives in Africa works 16 hours a day and gets paid 0.45$, most of the people will say that I’m just joking. However, this is not a joke, but a true fact. The accidents or controversies about long working hours and small payments result from exploitation in working places. In fact, huge and rich fast-fashion enterprises, such as the GAP, H&M or Forever 21 exploited their workers, and that brought lots of accidents and tragedies to workers. Although the companies have great finances, they still exploit low-wage workers, who are usually from developing countries, to save their management cost. That is, exploitation in clothing enterprises takes considerable portion of human rights violations that ...

Title: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world Class number : 20420  Student name : Ho Eun Lee              These days, we cannot do anything with 1$ because of advanced prices. If I say that a worker who lives in Africa works 16 hours a day and gets paid 0.45$, most of the people will say that I’m just joking. However, this is not a kidding but a blue fact. The accidents or controversies about long working time and payment are from exploitation. In fact, the huge and rich enterprises, GAP, H&M or Forever 21 etc exploited their workers, and that brought lots of accidents and tragedies to workers. Although the companies’ affluent finances, they still exploit weak workers, usually from developing countries, to save their management cost. Thus this researcher suggests the elimination of the fast-fashion from the world.              When people...

Thesis: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world   Source: http://fastfashion.weebly.com/unethical-production.html        What I hope to learn from this source: I want to learn about the correlation between the develpong countries and fast fashion industry from this source. Especially I want to learn about the poor treatment to the workers who are from developing countires of fast fashion enterprises.   Notes: 1. Even though the label of cloth says “Made in U.S.A.”, the cloth is from developing countries. Because, usually, the factories are in developing countries. In developing countries, there are a lot of cheap labor force and cheap building sites, but the head office is usually in developed countries so the clothing company mark “Made in ○○ ”,; ○○ means developed countries, for example, U.S.A.. 2. Most of the laborers are women, children who are second-class citizens of the world. They hav...

Thesis: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world   Source: http://www.forgerecycling.co.uk/blog/fast-fashion/           What I hope to learn from this source: I want to learn about the clothing statistics of the world, especially about the correlation between consumption pattern of clothing and environment.   Notes: 1. - UK household spends £1,800 (£1,700 purchasing clothes + £130 on laundry) a year. - Every household emits 1.5 tonnes of CO2 from their clothes.This amount of emission is same with travelling 6,000 miles with general car.   2. According to Xue et al. (2014), 3.5~4% of tetile waste of the world is from China. China produces 26 miillions tonnes of tetile waste, but they reuse only less than 10%(2.6 millions). 3. In case of ZARA, a fast fashion company, they receive products twice a week. It creates long carbon footprints by travel range with planes. Wee...

Thesis: Fast-fashion should be eliminated from the world   Source: http://europe.newsweek.com/old-clothes-fashion-waste-crisis-494824?rm=eu   What I hope to learn from this source: I want to learn about the negative effect of fast-fashion, especially in the aspect of the environment and also the actual state of fast-fashion enterprises   Notes: 1. There is already a recycling system in fast fashion enterprises. However, only 0.1 percent of all clothing collected by charities and take-back programs is recycled into new textile fiber 2. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 84 percent of unwanted clothes went into dump ground or landfill in the United States in 2012 3. Natural fibers like cotton, linen, silk, and semi-synthetic fibers that were created from plant-based cellulose produce a great amount of greenhouse gas under the ground. Also, they cannot be used as compost.   Final Thoughts:...