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Primark |
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13/07/08 (72 review reads) |
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Advantages: Ethical Trading Initiative.
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Ok,everyone here is writing about how they shouldn't buy at Primark because of the child labour thing, so I thought i'd give the flip side of this argument and let you know the real facts.
Yes Primark did use illegal child labour, but since the programme was made they have stopped trading with the 2 or 3 places which were specifically using the young children, as a goodwill gesture, primark is donating ALL the profit from the items these children helped make to projects in india to give them a better life.
They may still use child labour, but the important thing to remember is that this is child labour to our country, not to the country that the clothes are made in so Primark is following the law. They are also part of the Ethical Trading Inititative which has it's own set of rules (as to the age of children etc) and they will go by whichever age is higher. In an ideal world of course we wouldn't want any kids working but this isn't the case and we can't solve it right now, if the kids stop working for clothing companies then they most likely would die or turn to another (worse) source of income.
Another fact to consider here is that Primark infact use the exact same factories as many other high street retailers (such as Monsoon, New look, Topshop etc). They all pay the same price to the factories and they just choose to mark the prices up differently, Primark sells volume cheaply, Monsoon sell small amounts expensively. Either way if a top is £5 in Primark and £30 in Monsoon, the factory get the same amount, but as Primark is known as the cheap shop, it automatically falls onto their shoulders.
At the end of the day, where ever you choose to buy your clothes from, they will be made the same way, it's the way the world is. Until something can be done as a whole across the entire clothing industry this is the way it will stay.
Summary: You can't help but buy child labour.
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