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Labour Behind Labels, Just Business

This resource can be used to explore working conditions in the garment industry and can be adapted to different ages/subjects/background knowledge. It is free to download from the Just Business website.

Whilst the opening paragraph may not be relevant to fashion-related courses, the download gives a number of activities that can be adapted for use by different ages and focus:

Behind the labels: Explores where our clothes come from.
How, how, how: A simple, but effective activity to get students exploring why, when we in the UK are capable of producing clothing for ourselves, is almost all of our clothing manufacturing relocated overseas?
Who gets what: This activity explores who gets what in the final price of an item of clothing and uses a case-study and another simple, but effective interactive activity to get students to consider their opinion about working conditions in the garment industry. A discussion is stimulated around who has responsibility to change things.
What are the companies doing?: Discussion questions are suggested after students have visited brands' and campaigning groups websites to explore issues of responsibility of brands, retailers, consumers in more detail and what is being done to change the situation.

Publisher: Just Business

This teaching activity has been taken from Parker, L. and Dickson, M.A. (2009) Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators, Bristol: Labour Behind the Label. Download the whole publication here.

1. Level	Pre-16, FE
2. Pre-requisite knowledge required by educators	A. No background knowledge required.
3. Pre-requisite knowledge required by students	A. No background knowledge required.
4. Number of students	Any number
5. Length of time required	Adjustable
6. Type of activity	Individual work, Group work, Interactive activities, Discussion and debate
7. Discipline	Business, Cross-curricular, Interactive
8. Topics covered	Companies, Consumers, Corporate social responsibility, Empathy, Globalisation, Health, Workers' rights, Working conditions

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