What’s more sweaty than sweatshops? Third World exploitation is an old story, but more and more, it’s apparent that labor exploitation is tied to all the other problems that could finish off the human race in complicated and sometimes obvious ways (labor exploitation is related to oppressive regimes, careless environmental exploitation, etc.)…

Sweatshops are Everything

Why do we care, and what does it have to do with Celebrity Sweating? Well, a lot. Because underneath the glamour of couture and Hollywood, exists sweatshops…And sweatshops make us excessive sweat, hardcore.

Can anyone explain to us, at Celebrity Sweating, why we pay $40 for shirt or $100 for a pair of tennis shoes when they cost like a $1 to make? Why people make dollars a day making our overpriced junk? We don’t get it because it’s not like things have gotten cheaper. They certainly haven’t.

Nike Sweatshops

The International Labor Rights Forum has created a new list for 2010 of special sweatshop offenders. From their website:

The official inductees of the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame are: Abercrombie and Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Ikea, Kohl’s, LL Bean, Pier 1 Imports, Propper International, and Walmart. This list also includes an Honorable Mention to the American Apparel and Footwear Association, a national trade association representing apparel and footwear companies. This association has exhibited a flagrant disregard for workers’ rights by primarily focusing on maintaining trade with Honduras in the middle of a military coup.

You don’t have have to give us a reason to hate Abercrombie and Fitch or Walmart, both of them are all kinds of Nazi ugly, but having more reasons to hate them is cool with us.

So when you’re shopping this Christmas, just think a little bit about what’s important… Think about a better, greener more friendly world, because big corporations don’t care about anyone, Wall Street, hello?

More about global sweatshops below:

GAP Sweats Child Labor Again, as GAP Sweatshops are Slaveshops

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