We've been fighting 'fast fashion' since the Industrial Revolution. ... much of it sewn in sweatshop-like factories in Asia and Latin America and sold by popular brands such as Shein and Zara.

Compared to the post-industrial prosperity Americans enjoy today, “sweatshops” seem inhuman. But there is another side to the story. Strange as it sounds, there are places “where sweatshops ...

During the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States, ... American sweatshops, e.g. the Lowell mills, were good for young women in the 19th century.