Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Shein is a $100 billion company originally headquartered in China, now Singapore. By some metrics, it is the biggest fashion retailer in the world, and it has been accused of a lot of things, from having dangerous materials in many of its products, from pfas to lead, to huge tax evasion in the UK and Brazil and tax evasion in the US. It's also been accused from everyone of massive copyright theft. But the real story about Shein and its clothes is this: Shein's clothes are made by slaves.
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Sources
CNN – Xinjiang Whistleblower Interview
cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
NYT – Xinjiang Document Leak
nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
Xinjiang Police Files
xinjiangpolicefiles.org
BBC – China Forcing Birth Control on Uyghurs
bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
AP – Congressional Report Into Shein and Temu Forced Labour
apnews.com/article/temu-shein-forced-labor-china-de7b5398c76fda58404abc6ec5684972
TIME – Shein's Human Cost
time.com/6247732/shein-climate-change-labor-fashion
NPR – Shein Influencers Are Shills
npr.org/2023/06/30/1184974003/shein-influencers-china-factory-trip-backlash
Business Insider – Shein Factory Conditions
businessinsider.com/shein-factory-workers-18-hour-shifts-paid-low-wages-report-2022-10
US Select Committee On CCP - Uyghur Genocide Report
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fast-fashion-and-the-uyghur-genocide-interim-findings.pdf
Bloomberg – Shein's Cotton Tests Positive For Forced Labour
bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-21/shein-s-cotton-clothes-tied-to-xinjiang-china-region-accused-of-forced-labor#xj4y7vzkg
The New Yorker – Surviving the Xinjiang crackdown
newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang
JPO – Report On Concentration Camps
jpolrisk.com/brainwashing-police-guards-and-coercive-internment-evidence-from-chinese-government-documents-about-the-nature-and-extent-of-xinjiangs-vocational-training-internment-camps
DW – Uyghur Women Forcibly Sterilised
dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-sterilized-in-attempt-to-suppress-population/a-54018051
Genocide Studies Journal – Uyghur Women In Xinjiang Genocide
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol15/iss1/6/
US Congress Report – Uyghur Genocide
sgp.fas.org/crs/row/IF10281.pdf
Politico – Shein uses forced labor.
politico.com/news/2023/06/05/shein-china-forced-labor-claims-lobbying-fast-fashion-00100065
CNBC – Shein's IPO
cnbc.com/2023/08/30/shein-faces-scrutiny-over-forced-labor-before-ipo.html
The Guardian – Who is Shein's Founder?
theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/30/chris-xu-shein-mysterious-billionaire-founder-fast-fashion
Fast Cheap And Out Of Control – Shein's sudden rise
wired.com/story/fast-cheap-out-of-control-inside-rise-of-shein/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_f29c2a0e-7e31-4007-9182-4d4a228ed90e_popular4-1
The Guardian – More then 500 000 forced to pick cotton
theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds
Shein is a $100 billion company originally headquartered in China, now Singapore. By some metrics, it is the biggest fashion retailer in the world, and it has been accused of a lot of things, from having dangerous materials in many of its products, from pfas to lead, to huge tax evasion in the UK and Brazil and tax evasion in the US. It's also been accused from everyone of massive copyright theft. But the real story about Shein and its clothes is this: Shein's clothes are made by slaves.
Support on Patreon: patreon.com/GeorgRockallSchmidt
Leave a tip: paypal.me/GeorgRockallSchmidt
Twitter: twitter.com/grockallschmidt
Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100025678273449
Sources
CNN – Xinjiang Whistleblower Interview
cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
NYT – Xinjiang Document Leak
nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
Xinjiang Police Files
xinjiangpolicefiles.org
BBC – China Forcing Birth Control on Uyghurs
bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
AP – Congressional Report Into Shein and Temu Forced Labour
apnews.com/article/temu-shein-forced-labor-china-de7b5398c76fda58404abc6ec5684972
TIME – Shein's Human Cost
time.com/6247732/shein-climate-change-labor-fashion
NPR – Shein Influencers Are Shills
npr.org/2023/06/30/1184974003/shein-influencers-china-factory-trip-backlash
Business Insider – Shein Factory Conditions
businessinsider.com/shein-factory-workers-18-hour-shifts-paid-low-wages-report-2022-10
US Select Committee On CCP - Uyghur Genocide Report
selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fast-fashion-and-the-uyghur-genocide-interim-findings.pdf
Bloomberg – Shein's Cotton Tests Positive For Forced Labour
bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-21/shein-s-cotton-clothes-tied-to-xinjiang-china-region-accused-of-forced-labor#xj4y7vzkg
The New Yorker – Surviving the Xinjiang crackdown
newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang
JPO – Report On Concentration Camps
jpolrisk.com/brainwashing-police-guards-and-coercive-internment-evidence-from-chinese-government-documents-about-the-nature-and-extent-of-xinjiangs-vocational-training-internment-camps
DW – Uyghur Women Forcibly Sterilised
dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-sterilized-in-attempt-to-suppress-population/a-54018051
Genocide Studies Journal – Uyghur Women In Xinjiang Genocide
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol15/iss1/6/
US Congress Report – Uyghur Genocide
sgp.fas.org/crs/row/IF10281.pdf
Politico – Shein uses forced labor.
politico.com/news/2023/06/05/shein-china-forced-labor-claims-lobbying-fast-fashion-00100065
CNBC – Shein's IPO
cnbc.com/2023/08/30/shein-faces-scrutiny-over-forced-labor-before-ipo.html
The Guardian – Who is Shein's Founder?
theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/30/chris-xu-shein-mysterious-billionaire-founder-fast-fashion
Fast Cheap And Out Of Control – Shein's sudden rise
wired.com/story/fast-cheap-out-of-control-inside-rise-of-shein/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_f29c2a0e-7e31-4007-9182-4d4a228ed90e_popular4-1
The Guardian – More then 500 000 forced to pick cotton
theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/xinjiang-china-more-than-half-a-million-forced-to-pick-cotton-report-finds
