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The Gap Minds Itself

The fashion giant releases a candid report detailing the industry’s squalid working conditions

By Mark Engler

“When I decided to join Gap Inc. in the fall of 2002,” writes Paul Presser, president and CEO of the clothing giant behind the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic brands, “one of the first things my teenage daughter asked was, ‘Doesn’t Gap use sweatshops?’ ” An aggressive global movement for workers’ rights has effectively pushed this question into consumer consciousness,… return to article

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