The seminar I had the other day was all about ethical issue within the world of fashion and textiles. Our task from the week before was to research an article on a chosen store about either consumerism (fast fashion) or labor (sweatshops, child labor). A lot of people chose to research about the stores Primark and Gap for what has been seen in the media in recent years. As this was the case we were split into 4 different groups and had to argue for or against the shop we had been given.
The group I was in, was given the task to argue For the store Gap, finding out all the good point and what makes gap a good company. We had to debate and argue our side so that the other groups would chose our argument as the strongest, hopefully changing a few peoples minds about what they think about the store.
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| Picture of the gap logo. |
When my group I was working in found out that we were arguing for Gap, we were all a bit taken a back by the idea because we had only herd quite awful things about Gap as a company, about that they use sweatshop and child labor to produce their garment ect... We were all a bit apprehensive about how we were going to argue our point. However when we got to research about the store in detail a lot of great and promising points and information came up, which we were all quite surprised at. We firstly found this great video from the Gap inc. website. which is the Vice president of social and environmental responsibly talking to us the viewer about there social and environmental report.
Below is a link to the video.
In doing this research on Gap these are the point we found out.
Key facts.
> Gap was founded in 1969 in San Francisco
> There is more than 100,000 workers in gap
alone.
> 3100 company operated stores and
200 franchise stores
Social responsibly.
>They monitor 99% of they factories
>They are very proud of P.A.C.E which
stands for personal advancement career
enhancement this is for women in developing
country's which allows them to advance
in the work place.
>80% of their employee are women
>In 2010 gap employees volenteered 428,000
hours of their time helping people. The value
of their time, the money that they made
as well as the amount that gap the company
match raised 16 million dollars.
> Gap want their workers to be trained
with respect and dignity
Environmental
>One of gaps main aims is to reduce their carbon
emissions by 20% between the years of
2008 to 2015
> They have installed 16 thousand light bulbs
in the factories.
>Gap is one of the founding member's of sustainable
apparel coalition which they use to find more sustainable
materials as well as better quality in their factories
> Gap's clothes are better quality than those in a store
like Primark, meaning more value for money
and less landfill waste.
Well just to round this post off i just want to say, finding out all this Positive information really has changed my mind about Gap as a company, they do a lot of great things for the environment, women is developing counties as well as for charity. It was really great to hear about all the positive things they have done for the world, instead of hearing all the negative, subjective things that have been said within the media about them.
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