Where to find out more
See Time Out’s guide to ethical shopping in London
See The Telegraph’s comparison of the high street retailers
The The Clean Up Fashion campaign has profiles of what all the major retailers are up to in terms of labour standards.
Try www.simsweatshop.com if you want to know a bit about how it might feel to work in a sweatshop.
This is easy-to-read news about ethical fashion shows and shops that actually sell things that look nice. The site grew out of an idea by Nick Denton, who started Gawker.com, a very nice US fashion-y gossip site.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/fashion/clothing
Shortcut to all of the sites of the people running campaigns and everything like that: anti-sweatshops, anti-fur, pro-hemp…
http://money.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,1321621,00.html
And this is a round-up of pretty much every little company specializing in ethical clothing: http://www.thisisnotmy.co.uk/jelostein/directorybig.php#smart
How you can do more
You can join this campaign, which always has new information on how different clothing brands treat their workers and what you can do to help. It’s the UK arm of a worldwide campaign called Clean Clothes.
http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
If you want a campaign that’s keen on solidarity and fighting sweatshop bosses, there’s: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/about
