{"id":752,"date":"2008-07-03T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/07\/03\/ethics-cheap-clothes-and-tough-decisions"},"modified":"2008-07-03T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:28:00","slug":"ethics-cheap-clothes-and-tough-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/07\/03\/ethics-cheap-clothes-and-tough-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics, Cheap Clothes and tough decisions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent publicity here in the UK has focussed attention on the phenomena of <em>very<\/em> cheap clothing for sale in the UK. The spotlight recently fell on Primark &#8211; which defends itself robustly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalprimark.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ethicalprimark.co.uk\/<\/a> &#8211; after the BBC showed a number of claims regarding the fashion chain&#8217;s alleged use of child labour: you can watch the programme below..<\/p>\n<p>Is it appropriate for us to worry about this? Do we have a duty to take responsibility for the origins of that we buy? I am asking this, first, of some visiting Year 9 pupils (14 year olds) &#8211; who will make some comments &#8211; but comments from all are welcome..<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/independent\/2008\/06\/the-devil-wears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/independent\/2008\/06\/the-devil-wears.html  <\/a>for some interesting debate on this issue<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent publicity here in the UK has focussed attention on the phenomena of very cheap clothing for sale in the UK. The spotlight recently fell on Primark &#8211; which defends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-primark"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}