Unseen Labour

2025

I’ve been commissioned to undertake a two year research project into unseen labour practices within the fashion industry. My focus is on the destruction of wool in the Netherlands following the dismantling of the domestic wool industry since the 1980s. Because wool processing is labour-intensive and costly, it has become economically cheaper to destroy raw wool than to process it. I will set out to investigate the industrial destruction process in parallel with a socio-historical research into the lamb as symbol of sacrifice.

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