Teaser - PTO Extra! Sweatshop reshoring - fast fashion and Leicester's lockdown w/ Ashok Kumar

On the 30th of June the city of Leicester, in the East Midlands of
the UK was put back into lockdown following a spike in Covid-19
cases. The new outbreak of the virus put the spotlight on the
garment district of the city - where the new outbreak may have
emerged - much of which is characterised by extremely exploitative
labour practices in small factories serving giant online retailers
such as Boohoo and major high street brands. I spoke to Ashok Kumar
about the reshoring of garment production in the UK, how Covid-19
has affected and changed the manufacturing of clothes in both the
global north and south, and how fast fashion helps to prevent
increased investment in technology and serves to maintain
labour-intensive forms of production.