As a child in the 1980s, the clothes I wore were manufactured in the country where I lived, Finland. As an adult in the 2020s, when I buy clothes to my own children, they are ‘designed’ in Finland but manufactured in places such as Bangladesh, China and Vietnam. What happened, and what does this entail for any discussion of social justice and private law? One answer is that the fall of the Iron Curtain in the early 1990s seems to roughly coincide with a massive outsourcing of production from the Global North to the Global South … (more)
[Jaakko Salminen, Transformative Private Law Blog, 24 October 2024]
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