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  • Goldfish warns, "there may be some danger of creating the impression that one must either be a victim of fast fashion, brought to one by slave-labour, polluting processes and transport or one must commit to wearing the same outfit forever."

    Limited Clothing Sage 2009

  • Given that this isn't a one-off performance art work, there may be some danger of creating the impression that one must either be a victim of fast fashion, brought to one by slave-labour, polluting processes and transport or one must commit to wearing the same outfit forever.

    Five Easy Pieces Sage 2009

  • Goldfish warns, "there may be some danger of creating the impression that one must either be a victim of fast fashion, brought to one by slave-labour, polluting processes and transport or one must commit to wearing the same outfit forever."

    Archive 2009-03-01 Sage 2009

  • Please, yes, take care of yourselves, we'll enjoy your posts all the more knowing there's no unethical slave-labour involved :

    Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes 2009

  • There is nothing even human, let alone Left-Wing, about dragging the ill and disabled out to do slave-labour for private "gaffers".

    John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008

  • Professor Marshall, for instance, seeking to distinguish wage-labour from slave-labour, says:

    Servility or Freedom? 2008

  • Free emigrants and workmen will not settle in Kentucky, where they would be brought into contact with compulsory slave-labour; thus the development of industry is retarded, and the difference will become more apparent every year, till possibly some great changes will be forced upon the legislature.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Shout down voices in head yelling about imported force-grown slave-labour bulb-plant industry.

    A Day In The Life ailbhe 2005

  • It is a well known fact that Universities would be unable to survive without access to the highly educated slave-labour that we refer to as "Graduate Students".

    Archive 2005-11-01 Carlo Artieri 2005

  • It is a well known fact that Universities would be unable to survive without access to the highly educated slave-labour that we refer to as "Graduate Students".

    Marking... Carlo Artieri 2005

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