Fashion Industry And Work
Another grave problem faced by the fashion industry is the extreme body forms of the models as a majority of these catwalk models are dangerously skinny in their appearances. It has been known that some of them even suffer from malnourishment. The young aspirants, upon seeing these outrageously skinny models, may set these people as the benchmarks and might become obsessed with the looks. In order to look like them, they may go to any extent and they develop some kind of eating disorders. All these are problems that are found just on the surface of the fashion and modelling industry. Underneath all these aspects is the issue of sweatshops that make use of child labour. In search of a highly cheap and exploitable labour base, many multinational fashion houses or companies expand to the less developed or developing countries in different parts of the world. By doing this way, they will be able to hire young children to work for very long and arduous hours by giving them very low wages. This is especially so because many of these children are so desperate for a few rupees. To add to the woes, many of the less fortunate people in these countries have no proper laws in place to protect these children from being exploited in this way by multinational organizations. Also, these bond-laboured children do not have any ways or means by which they can exert pressure for getting better wages and better working conditions. Since they just want to continue making the paltry amount of money they are given now, they have to simply tolerate the inexorable sad conditions they are put into.