Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success
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Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.

Summary

Shein’s rise as the world’s largest fast-fashion retailer is powered by 5,000 factories in Guangzhou’s “Shein village,” where workers often exceed 75-hour weeks, violating Chinese labor laws.

Paid per piece, wages remain low despite long hours, with some earning as little as £10 per day.

Allegations of forced labor and child workers persist, alongside concerns over its use of Xinjiang cotton.

Shein, valued at $66bn, plans a London IPO, prompting promises of better governance.

  • galaskorz
    102·
    1 day ago

    Ahh yea, blame the middle man for china’s lack of support for the working class.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
      131·
      1 day ago

      Both are wrong, one enables the demand, the other enables the supply.

      The consumer is the least at fault, but keeps getting blamed to divert from the role of middlemen, who silently go unnoticed.