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Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry’s Sweatshops

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Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory within the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union—all verified by an independent monitor. It’s the only apparel factory within the global south to fulfill these criteria.

The Alta Gracia business model represents a substitute for the industry’s usual race-to-the-bottom model with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers’ stories reveal how adding US$0.90 to a sweatshirt’s production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to a reunited circle of relatives; from purchasing children’s school uniforms to taking night classes; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to installing running water. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry’s sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory to be informed how the anti-sweatshop began, the way it overcame challenges, and how the affect of its business model could turn out to be the global industry.
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