Portrait of a Textile Worker

[pne]

Go have a look at this entry in being_homeless's journal.

It's about a woman making a quilt out of clothing labels, depicting a textile worker in Bangladesh who gets paid nearly nothing to produce clothes Westerners wear.

Comments

[bicoherent.livejournal.com]

If I'm not wrong, people's response to outsourced software are somewhat intertwined with racist attitudes, and besides most open source projects are started by Westerners. :-| The thinking is, these goods aren't just cheap, they're produced by inferior peoples living in squalid conditions who are forever doomed to be code monkeys. So I doubt the Open Source movement will change the way people see outsourcing.

Besides, even if that attitude changes, the fact remains that the actual workers are paid peanuts....