Faster Fashion: True Cost
Seminar, one hour. Examination of garment production under new age of fast fashion and its rapid growth around world. Review of racial, ethnic, cultural, climate, and legislative impacts that fast fashion has had around world through series of class discussions, readings, and case studies. Students engage with speakers from unions, garment industry, and legislative aides working on labor policy. Use of intersectionality as framework for identifying garment workers--majority of whom are women, people of color, immigrants, refugees, etc.--at vanguard of labor movement in U.S. and around world. Examination of true cost to fast fashion from intersection of global trade, industrialization, gender, immigration, and unionization. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Abeeha Hussain, with Caroline E. Luce as faculty mentor.
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