Introduction

Business Ethics for Blood, Sweat and T-shirts

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Abstract

The TV series Blood, Sweat and T-shirt is all about the story of six teenage fashion addiction who wanted to work with India’s cotton factories as well as the high street shopping. The six people named Amrita, Georgina, Mark, Richard, Stacey and Tara decide to visit India and also they visit there and observe India’s role in supplying high street fashion in the UK. They experience how the workers are forcefully worked in such a bad environment with very small amounts. The amount is so small that the workers are not able to feed their families properly. Apart from this, they visit Mumbai, the highest and biggest slum area and also they struggle in Delhi too.

After all such experiences, so many questions arise in their mind about the ethics of UK shops. Apart from this, the good part is the design or the gate of labels that the Indian government freely opened and raised a helping hand. Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts is a documentary series where basically the six young British or six fashionable teenagers from Britain expose or show India’s realities of the textile industry. The four episodes of this series show their travelling and experience of living and working with Indians as well as garment workers.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 3

Discussion. 3

Conclusion. 6

References. 8

Introduction

Business Ethics is an act to consider the stakeholder both honestly and fairly. Blood, Sweat and T-shirts are basically a television documentary series in Britain. Any organization’s ethics can be considered with the help of business policies. An investor can never get the initiative for a business until the interest in ethics is properly established. The details clearly present the ethical challenges which present the blood sweat and t-shirt that evaluates in business. Documentaries also show the blood sweat and t-shirt’s reality about from where the fast fashion starts and also it describes its production processes.

Discussion

Business ethics related to implement CSR

The 6 young British consumers who built the textile industry in another country are the actual attraction of Blood, Sweat and T-shirts. It shows how they travel outside the country to live and work with other garment workers. The main focus in a business organization was to raise the ethical issues and the problem and how to implement the CSR (Garraud & Tissot, 2018). This documentary series named Blood, sweat and t-shirts actually raises all these issues, arguments and also has highlighted these things. The documents explain that the workers forcefully worked in an environment that was very dirty, smelly and hot as well. However, in such an environment the workers have to work for long hours. They discovered most of the shops were located very small.

These British consumers describe the workers’ breathless pain. Not only this but also the workers were not being paid their proper entitled wages. According to the series, the amount that they used to receive was not sufficient to provide food and clothes to the families (Greenwood & Freeman, 2018). The poor situation described in this document was so painful. The workers were neither allowed to talk to each other at the workplace nor could they rise from the machine till the work was complete. They have to forcefully work in that non-friendly workplace.

Everyone indeed wants to buy cheap clothes at reasonable prices. Instead of such mentality from this exploitative and very demanding industry, the shoppers never grasp the actual cost. This textile business also has some dark sides like wage slavery, labour that done by the children, painful cruelty with employees and many more (Krummel & Siegfried, 2021). The four episodes from this series show British consumers travelling to other countries and next describe all the hassles that the workers are tolerating.

The decision of visiting India and to check the role of India in supplying the high street of fashion clothes to the UK is the basic story of this documentary series. Richard, who is one of them of these six young British consumers, was running his own agency as a consultant. He realized that people in India by displaying all the committee could make their own feet for the successes. Another hand Amrita, another fashion addiction was a student in fashion photography. She never cared about who was making her clothes, but she was dumbfounded when the show was about to end. Amrita announces the differences in the ethical pedigree of all clothes that she buys. According to her, cheap fashions are great (Fukuma et al., 2019). Probably she supports about 95 percent of British consumers to make the Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts blissful ignorance. However, maintaining these reasons makes it a little difficult.

The Business ethics related to program

The program activities raised many questions in viewers’ minds about what kind of standard India should have incorporated and equality and why the UK government is not giving pressure on the UK-based companies. Financial prosperity can be definitely ethical or legal with the base of closer scrutiny. Every single day the show reveals the realities of Indian workers in the garment factories. It shows India’s poverty level, harmful, disastrous working conditions and unsafe work environment. It also clearly denied the humble humane treatment. However, 6 young consumers make most footage as they reveal the inequalities in global trade. TV programs like ‘Blood, Sweat and T Shirt’ make world-first consumption on agency sites. Basically, this conscious generation from Britain wanted to get a chance to observe how Indian clothes are made and once they realized the workers’ pain and after a big struggle they opened the factories quotas of their achievements

Business ethics regarding strategy

The series’ second episode describes the struggle of these British teenagers. However, this time they have to produce some blouses within very short notice and the amount also is very tiny. Richard just thinks about how one can survive like this. His contemptuous build the next stop and that was the cotton fields. The intrinsic link between governments and business may be the most important issue which is never discussed in the series named Blood, Sweat and T-shirts (Vachhani, 2020). The true form of Capitalism can never be better businesses or big corporations. This series of six fashion addicts who shop from the high street and start working in India’s field of cotton and factories found a way to handle the sewing machine and how they can meet the target by completing two garments in just a minute. 

Figure 1: Graph regarding the Business Ethics for Blood, Sweat and T-shirts

Source: (Vachhani, 2020)

They also discover that their experience and business ethics changed their attitude in the clothes shopping market. The economy is described as global, only with the help of technology and large corporations. The fashion industry gave regard and physically demanded these six fashions consumers for jobs in or into the country. Now they find the money better to compensate for their bloody fingers as well as streaming eyes too.

Conclusion

Blood, Sweat and T-shirts is basically a series where it shows how Six young fashion addicts change fashion into a business ethic. The fashion industry has always been highlighted with safety concerns and took all necessary paths for business ethics. All the experiences that they had going through like child labour, painful workplace, bad environment, pay little penny prepared them to build up questions on UK ethics. After all these experiences now for the very first time, these six young fashion addicts start shopping for the factories. They swap all of India’s backstreet workshops and start their dream to make clothes for the stores of British. Now the Clothes look more disposable and bargaining becomes one of the national obsessions.

References

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Garraud, O., & Tissot, J. D. (2018). Blood and blood components: from similarities to differences. Frontiers in medicine, 5, 84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2018.00084

Greenwood, M., & Freeman, R. E. (2018). Deepening ethical analysis in business ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 147(1), 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3766-1

Krummel, D., & Siegfried, P. (2021). The Dark Side of Samsung’s Value Chain: The Human Costs of Cobalt Mining “BLOOD, SWEAT AND COBALT”. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 9(02), 182. DOI: 10.4236/gep.2021.92011

Vachhani, S. J. (2020). Envisioning a democratic culture of difference: Feminist ethics and the politics of dissent in social movements. Journal of business ethics, 164(4), 745-757. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04403-5