The True Cost of Fashion: Outsourced Accountability and Hidden Labor Systems
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The True Cost of Fashion by Louise Spilsbury as an entry point, this episode explores how modern fashion systems externalize environmental and labor costs through fragmented global supply chains.
The discussion examines:
incentive structures
institutional persistence
subcontracting systems
ecological externalization
labor arbitrage
consumer perception and hidden costs
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