Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Following the success of last year’s Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the reality TV programme which dropped young fashionistas in Indian garment factories, to experience the working conditions behind their clothes, BBC3 have just announced that they will be transferring the concept to the food supply chain.
Starting on Tuesday 19th May 2009, Blood Sweat and [...]
Northumbria Fashion Students given a taste of factory working conditions
Impactt were fascinated to read about a three-day factory simulation conducted by 22 fashion design and marketing students at Northumbria University last week. In a move reminiscent of last year’s TV phenomenon Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the students experienced factory working conditions by setting up sewing lines and using time cards to clock on [...]
The Devil Wears Primark: Another dose of reality TV sweatshops
Hot on the heals of BBC3’s ‘Blood Sweat and T-Shirts‘, comes Channel 4’s ‘The Devil Wears Primark‘, which is being broadcast on Sunday June 1st at 9.00pm.
Like ‘Blood Sweat and T-Shirts’ the shows concerns the working conditions of Indian workers making clothes for Britain’s low cost fashion industry. These include poor health and safety, [...]
Blood Sweat and T-Shirts: coming face to face with child labour
Last night we saw the final instalment of Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the BBC3 reality TV show about the garment industry in India. We have been fairly critical of the show in previous weeks since it has seemed to focus on the Brit’s shock at their living conditions, but last night’s episode managed to [...]
Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts, and Squabbling
The eagerly awaited third episode of BBC3’s Blood, Sweat, and T-Shirts aired last night yet disappointingly, the focus of the show was on a blocked toilet and group in-fighting when the six British ‘workers’ were transported to pick cotton in rural India. In our opinion, the 3rd episode focussed too heavily on this at [...]
Ethics-terminate…? Sweatshops and Doctor Who
It’s official; supply chain labour standards are part of the zeitgeist and a staple of children’s TV! Labour standards are not just the subject of the BBC’s new reality TV show Blood, Sweat and T-shirts, they also feature in the badinage between Donna and The Doctor.
Viewers of last Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who [...]