Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes

You look good in those jeans. But are those jeans themselves good? Have you ever looked into where they came from and who made them?

In Clothing Poverty, Andrew Brooks takes readers on a global journe…

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