Who among us does not like to go out for some good shopping from time to time.
One that includes buying quite a few things that are good for the soul?
Nowadays, you don't even have to leave the house and you can buy everything online.
One of the world's most popular online shopping sites is Shein, which belongs to the Chinese fast fashion retail giant.
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Thanks to the very cheap products it sells, the value of the company is currently estimated at several billions - and it doesn't seem to show even the beginning of signs of stopping.
The great success of Shein raised the suspicion that workers on the company's production lines are employed in slave conditions - which was verified by a "Reuters" investigation in 2021, and which is now the subject of a documentary ("Behind the Shein website") that deals with this issue.
Journalist Iman Amarni set out to investigate what was behind that great success, and discovered that it reached its peak during the Corona epidemic, so many people stayed in their homes and made many purchases over the Internet.
The workers in the company's factories work in shifts of 17-18 hours in deplorable conditions.
The hidden cameras of the investigators, who entered the company's factories, record the difficulty and stress that the workers experience every day, when they work in shifts that are by all accounts inhumane and all this for divorces.
Created in deplorable conditions?
A corset sold on the Shein website, photo: foreign public relations
Amrani quickly discovers that the root of the rise to greatness of the Chinese network is thanks to small network influencers, who advertised the company's products, so that they receive a handsome payment and add more followers, and that Shein earns more and more money from this.
Presenting things in this way presents today's young people as Instagram addicts who are only looking for affection and love wherever possible, even if the way there means that you have to run over the most basic conditions that humans are supposed to accept for their well-being.
What happens behind the closed doors of a Shayin factory is something that should not be ignored.
As the company steals models from other designers, so it tries to hide the conditions under which it employs its masses of workers.
Is the company breaking the law?
So what, at most she gets fines that won't move her.
This is an important and fascinating docu-film that does not miss a single opportunity to look reality in the eye, and it poses to the viewers not easy questions at all: What does this require of us to purchase products from different companies without limit?
Does this mean that by actually buying, we agree with the shocking employment conditions of places like Shayin?
And if not - why do we keep buying in these businesses time and time again, even though we know what's going on behind the scenes?
From the movie "Behind the Shein Website", photo: courtesy of yes doku
The film actually makes the viewer realize that he has a share in the responsibility for what happens there, just like the producer.
While one is the one who makes it all happen, the other is the one who enables him to do so by not stopping to buy what he offers.
Without an iota of condescension and without trying to provoke provocations, the film conveys a message that every decision we make has a purpose, a result.
In this case, the result is indeed hidden from view, but with a little digging, it will be hard to miss us.
We are all partners in the exploitation industry of the fashion world.
"Behind the Shein website" airs on yes and yes docu
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