HOW WAS COVID-19 IMPACTED WORKERS IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY?
Since the beginning of Covid-19, garment workers around the world have been left unpaid or underpaid, causing a wage gap between what they received and what they are owed. When stores were closed, brands and retailers responded by cancelling all orders placed before the crisis and then factories were left without the money to pay their workers.
BILLION
WAGE GAP*
MILLION
WORKERS*
US DOLLARS
WAGES*
Lost wages is an infopoetry developed during the Final Synthesis Laboratory in the Density Design Lab at the Politecnico di Milano.
This site is a dystopian store born after a research about the relationship between the number of workers in the clothing industry and the wage gap developed from March to May 2020. The aim is to highlight what is hidden behind the fashion factory by investigating the human exploitation that occurred during the first phase of Covid-19.