K A Z I S A L A H U D D I N R A Z U / N U R P H OTO V I A G E T T Y
I M AG E S
BY
Loretta Graceffo (https://truthout.org/authors/lorettagraceffo/), Waging Nonviolence
PUBLISHED
March 20, 2021
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This article was originally published on Waging
Nonviolence
(https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/03/payupgarment-workers-won-stolen-wages-fashionindustry/).
I
n March 2020, Amanda Lee McCarty was laid o
from
her job.
For years, she had been working in the fashion industry
as a buyer and product developer. But as COVID-19 cases
surged and lockdown orders were implemented across
the world, retailers were faced with a dramatic plummet
in consumer demand for clothing. McCarty, who had