Reports that workers linked to the retailer’s suppliers are forced to endure a 75-hour working week have been levelled at the Chinese company by Swiss advocacy group Public Eye.The report claims a number of staff across six sites in Guangzhou were found to be working extremely long hours with the group’s spokesman saying there was “enormous pressure” on staff to turn clothes around quickly,…
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In the months after How To Be An Antiracist published in August 2019, I kept my distance.
The title had the ring of a self-help book, pop-psychology wrapped in the for some folks comforting ideology of personal effort can fix anything. Those kinds of books – see Lean In and, dare I say it, The Secret – tend to make the bold and arguably illogical claim th…
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