Breathless For Blue Jeans: Health Hazards In China’s Denim Factories
Crabbé Carole, 2013
Name of publisher/editor
Clean Clothes Campaign
Geographic area
Asia
Summary & key words
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) alongside with War on Want, SACOM and IHLO in July 2013 releases this research which shows that the practice of sandblasting – used in order to give jeans a worn or ‘distressed’ look – is still widespread in China despite most Western brands banning the practice three years ago because of its link to silicosis, a deadly lung disease that has already caused the deaths of many garment workers.