by Euryclea

Created on: January 31, 2007   Last Updated: April 30, 2007

I work in a clothing store and in my experience. Women do tend to buy more clothes than men. However, this does not mean to say that overall women are more or less materialistic than men. People, just may be encouraged to buy things which cost different amounts of money.

Clothes are cheaper now, and therefore people can afford to buy more of them. Put who thinks of the worker in some far off country who has worked about twelve hours for pittance. Doing the same repetitive work stitching those clothes.

You look at people who have pencil cases or purses with the playboy logo, and I think that they are encouraging sexist discrimination towards women.

Our granite materials that we have to have in our kitchens. Which we now can afford. Is made by people employed in slave labour like conditions in India.

In China where many of our mobile phones end up. Workers are employed in hazardous conditions. Dismantling our mobile phones. It is due to this fact that Chinese labour is so cheap with no legal health and safety conditions that the products are more cheaper. Than what they would have been if they had been made in the West.

We all know about fair trade, but the desire to have this or that from some store. Makes us buy the product. Of course as I said in another article the media encourage it. But we are not so controlled by the media that we are brainwashed and do not have our own independent thought.

Ever heard of the Ain't I a woman campaign. Where female factory workers working in slave labour conditions campaigned outside DKNY. Yet many people still buy from that store. But they do not like to see these workers have a campaign right in front of their face that they find difficult to ignore.

We also may seem materialistic, because we are able to buy more products that we like. www.cleanclothes.org states that British manufacturers have relocated to different countries, and that altogether British citizens spend 23 billion on clothes, men spend 400.00, women 800.00. They claimed that in Spring 1996 the hourly wages of women working in textiles factories was..

U.S.A 6.24, U.K 6.05, Italy 6.01, Tunisia 0.92, Thailand 0.79, Mexico 0.70, Turkey 0.66, Philipines 0.47, Bangladesh 0.28, China 0.24, Indonesia 0.23.

CAFOD states that wages in the garment industry are significantly lower. In Indonesia 0.35 per day. Whilst in Bangladesh in 1998 a typical days wages was 0.63.

Catherine Bennett Guardian report wrote that Tesco reported that Volume of sales of clothing, economies of scale,

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