blood, sweat and b-shirts and bbc bias
“Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. The group embark on the most shocking leg of their journey so far in Mumbai, as they are put to work in the backstreet factories of Dharivi [sic], the largest slum in Asia. But when they stumble across child labour they are forced to delve a little deeper and find out the extent of the problem and what is being done to prevent it.”: BBC – BBC Three Programmes – Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, Episode 4
right.
but somewhere the narrator, the producer, the script-writer lost the purpose of the programme. attempting to focus on child-labour issues in India, they forget who commissions this work; who sets prices. if shops and chains around the world buy from these Indian “factories” and the people in these various countries buy these clothes, just how does this become the “Indian Fashion Industry.”??? what would this “Indian Fashion Industry” be, if there were no buyers? wouldn’t you rather call it the global fashion industry?
and yes, i haven’t travelled by train for a while, but as far as I remember there isn’t a third-class in Indian Railways.
Couldn’t watch the video in India. How ever a similar question was raised when Asian countries were labeled the worst sex traffic offenders. Some how the question as to where the traffic is headed to was ignored.
The big picture is always hard to focus upon. And no there isn’t a third class compartment in the Indian Railways.
educatedunemployed
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 8:36 am
==EU:
it may be available on the bbc3 site. not that it is worth seeing or any such. sometimes i feel they do it just to ensure a negative impression. it’s maintenance, almost. and then, perhaps, who has the attention span to focus on the big picture; and how much of a big picture can you squeeze in a four hour documentary?
gaizabonts
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 11:02 pm