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Anne Elizabeth Moore and a host of artists explore important topics through graphic journalism.
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It’s the Money, Honey
While global garment industry revenue represents the lion's share of many countries' exports and GDP, the workers who make the garments almost never make a living wage - and …
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Outta Sight, Outta Mind: What Producers Don’t Want You to Know About How Your Clothes Are Made
The most important resource for garment manufacture is a pool of cheap and often desperate labor. A corrupt government is also helpful.
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Red Tape: Controlling the International Flow of Apparel
More than half a million jobs in the apparel industry have been lost since NAFTA. Ladydrawers connects the dots between homeland security, bras and the loss of US jobs.
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Ladydrawers – Zoned: The Mysterious “Foreign” Outposts Inside the USA
The latest installment of our yearlong look at international gender and labor issues looks at the wacky world of Foreign-Trade Zones and the labor problems they foster.
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Ladydrawers: The Business of Thrift
In which the intrepid Ladydrawers reporters show us what REALLY happens to used clothes ...
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Ladydrawers: Let’s Go Shopping
Ladydrawers' second look at the global garment trade begins where the production line should end: at H&M, Zara, Forever 21, and other fast-fashion retail stores.
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Ladydrawers: Fast Fashion
Fast fashion means cheap, cute, disposable threads on which we spend about $1,700 per year.
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Ladydrawers: “Being of Service“
Today's strip launches a new look at contemporary gender and economic justice around the world.
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A Ladydrawers History of Women’s Rights, Part VI: “The Crazy Cat Lady“
Marlo Brown wasn't credited in the discovery of Feline Immuno-deficiency virus due to gender bias in patent law.
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The Ladydrawers’ History of Women’s Rights Part V
The Ladydrawers finally found gender equality in patent ownership.