Should Clothing Stores Be Required to Post

[Igel]

22. And here's how it would work.

Company A, a large clothing brand, would contract with Company B. Company A would have to provide the posters.

Company B would hire subcontractors. It would provide the photos to Company A. B would possibly know the conditions at the individual plants, but the subcontractors might hire another layer of subcontractors.

The subcontractors making the clothing would have to provide the photos to company B. Or to the subcontractors hired by Company B.

Dress shirts may be made in one place. Or in a dozen. The casual shirts in a second place. Or an additional dozen. Etc. You may wind up with the clothing from a given brand made in 40 or 50 places--and a given style of shirt not consistently made in one place. This would mean papering the walls of the store with dozens of posters. How chic. How stylish. How agitpropish.

Just as now, the company with the brand may not know the factories where the shirts are made. So when it gets a photo, it may have no idea if that's the right factory or not. Or if that was a specially staged photo. Or a photo that's years old. So the agitpropish environment may be entirely (or mostly) fictional. Which would, oddly, be appropriate for agitprop. It's just that it wouldn't be *your* agitprop, but the subcontractors'.