Fashion Victims?

What are conditions really like for garment workers? An insight look at the industry employing 400,000 in Cambodia.

When a Bangladeshi garment factory collapsed in April killing over a thousand people, it focused attention on the plight of workers feeding the world’s demand for low-cost fashion.

400,000 people, mostly women, work in that industry in Cambodia, but what are conditions really like for them? The country has been held up as a model of how the industry should be, but David Brill finds it’s not so clear cut.

From protests and battles with the unions to workers living in poverty, David meets the people paying the price for our low-cost fashion. But there are also increasingly powerful forces backing better working conditions, including some of the big-name brands.

See this insight into the less glamorous side of the fashion industry.