Citation
(2013), "Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles – Values, Design, Production and Consumption", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 24 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2013.08324daa.012
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles – Values, Design, Production and Consumption
Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles – Values, Design, Production and Consumption
Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 24, Issue 4.
Edited by Miguel Angel Gardetti and Ana Laura TorresGreeleaf PublishingSheffieldFebruary 2013432 pp.ISBN 9781906093785€50.00
There is no doubt that the textile industry – the production of clothing, fabrics, thread, fibre, and related products – plays a significant part in the global economy. It also frequently operates with disregard to its environmental and social impacts. The textile industry uses large quantities of water and outputs large quantities of waste. As for social aspects, many unskilled jobs have disappeared in regions that rely heavily on these industries.
Another serious and still unresolved problem is the flexibility textile industry companies claim to need. Faced with fierce international competition, they are increasingly unable to offer job security. This is without even considering the informal-sector work proliferating both in developing and developed countries. Child labour persists within this sector despite growing pressure to halt it.