TAL Apparel & Sustainable Fashion’s Language Problem Part 2

The tone of a recent New York Times report implicating apparel manufacturer TAL Apparel in alleged forced labor is inadvertently misleading. At best, it oversimplifies a complex problem, and at worst, it obscures the path forward for effectively preventing forced labor in fashion supply chains.

Kim van der Weerd
JUST FASHION
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9 min readSep 12, 2020

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Kim van der Weerd
JUST FASHION

Co-host of Manufactured podcast, sustainable fashion advocate, former garment factory manager.