CITED SOURCES:

Slavey & Fashion An Overview:

• Verite, Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal and Corporate Supply Chains: Research on Risk in 43 Commodities Worldwide, 2017.

• Anti-Slavery International, https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/forced-labour/

• International Labor Organization, https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/definition/lang--en/index.htm

• United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/ProtocolTraffickingInPersons.aspx 

Country Profiles:

United States

• https://remake.world/stories/news/what-is-the-garment-worker-protection-act-and-why-do-we-need-it/

• https://www.verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Undocumented_US_Garment_Workers.pdf

• https://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/05/i-was-enslaved-for-40-days/

• http://garmentworkeract.org/

• https://garmentworkercenter.org/dirty-threads-dangerous-factories/

India

• Solidaridad, https://www.solidaridadnetwork.org/sites/solidaridadnetwork.org/files/publications/Understanding_Sumangali_Scheme_in_Tamil_Nadu.pdf

• The News Minute, https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/sumangali-scheme-when-marriage-assistance-becomes-bonded-labour-disguise-52320. 

Uzbekistan

• Verite, Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal and Corporate Supply Chains: Research on Risk in 43 Commodities Worldwide, 2017.

• Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, “U.S. Lifts Uzbek Cotton Ban, Saying Forced Child Labor ‘Significantly Reduced’.” https://www.rferl.org/a/u-s-lifts-uzbek-cotton-ban-child-labor-educed-/29845439.html

• The Cotton Campaign, http://www.cottoncampaign.org/uzbekistans-forced-labor-problem.html. 

Italy

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/fashion/italy-luxury-shadow-economy.html

Malaysia

• https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/22/ngos-softly-softly-tactics-tackle-labor-abuses-at-malaysia-factories

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/style/malaysia-forced-labor-garment-workers.html

• https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-trafficking-in-persons-report/malaysia/

China

• https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/10/17953106/walmart-prison-note-china-factory

• https://www.thefashionlaw.com/lacoste-is-the-latest-brand-tied-to-chinese-prison-labor/

• https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-and-others-tied-to-chinese-prison-labor-but-what-about-the-us/

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51697800

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-compels-uighurs-to-work-in-shoe-factory-that-supplies-nike/2020/02/28/ebddf5f4-57b2-11ea-8efd-0f904bdd8057_story.html

• https://www.workersrights.org/press-release/180-orgs-demand-apparel-brands-end-complicity-in-uyghur-forced-labour/

• https://qz.com/1209468/hm-and-ca-are-accused-of-benefitting-from-chinese-prison-labor/

• https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/

• https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-trafficking-in-persons-report/china/

• https://hongkongfp.com/2020/03/12/us-lawmakers-seek-ban-imports-xinjiang-china-forced-labour/

• https://remake.world/stories/news/forced-labor-of-uighur-muslims-and-the-urgency-proves-the-urgency-of-supply-chain-transparency/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=94303161&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9BRruB0LsQGRl2N7Vz38jH816zb9m-XG3p1HOn5mKXR_uO0cUYVpxTfV45nspa8VFc1oJ9qjvywFGpoMVaBN_0gxAd3w&utm_content=94303161&utm_source=hs_email

• https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2020-03/Uyghurs%20for%20sale_Final.pdf

America’s History

• http://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0011

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/the-cotton-economy-and-slavery/

• https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/cotton-gin-and-eli-whitney

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-the-2nd-middle-passage/

• https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-economy-capitalism-violence-cotton-edward-baptist

• https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/16/20806069/slavery-economy-capitalism-violence-cotton-edward-baptist

• https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy

• https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/empire-of-cotton/383660/

• https://www.bet.com/news/features/1619/1619--cotton-capitalism-and-the-fashion-industry.html

• https://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fabrics-fibers/cotton

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/why-was-cotton-king/

• https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2012/02/our-depraved-future-of-debt-slavery-part-i/

• https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/civil-war-cotton-capitalism-114776