Fidel, a relatively new employee on the subway told me that
he had lost several jobs after reporting injustices he had witnessed in the
workplace. After growing tired of the need to remain silent to keep a job, he
began working on the subway so that he could be his own boss. He narrated the
story of a friend who works from 6 AM to 6 PM and has a two-hour commute (many
people live in Buenos Aires
sprawling suburban area but work in the city limits). The man’s only child is
asleep when he leaves for work at 4 in the morning and again when he gets back
at 8 at night. This story is a common one, and it shows what has driven many
into the informal economy, which is more volatile but less cruel than its
counterpart.

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If you operate in an industry littered with accusations and actual accounts of the women workers who make your products being exploited financially and sexually, why in the world would you make such ads?

I don’t have a clue where Ecko jeans are made, but I highly doubt that the skimpily clad women featured in these videos actually make the jeans. I’ve spent months talking with women garment workers around the world and I’m utterly insulted by these ads. In Bangladesh, Arifa, a single mother, works hard so she doesn’t have to ship another son off to Saudi Arabia to work. In Cambodia Nari and Ai support 6 and 7 family members a piece on their paychecks. In China Zhu Chun tries to earn enough so her son can go to college.