Blood, Sweat & T-shirts - A Review

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BLOOD, SWEAT & T-SHIRTS - A REVIEW
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Corporate Social Responsibility or the CSR refers to the various initiatives on the part of the
concerned organization to assess and own responsibility for the various effects of the activities
on the part of the company in the matters that pertain to the social and environmental well-being
of the concerned region. Blood, Sweat & T-shirts is a British documentary series that had been
broadcasted on BBC Three in the year 2008. It follows that journey of the six fashion consumers
of British origin who had been travelling to India in order to work alongside the garment
producers in India in order to prepare the garments that were to be sold at the various high-street
stores in Britain. The following report deals with the view points of the retailers portrayed in the
documentary, Blood, Sweat & T-shirts and attempts an explanation of the same. The report
proceeds further to put forth the ethical obligations that should be maintained by the retailers and
the other professionals who are involved in the process of the manufacturing and the
transportation of the garments. The report proceeds further to attempt the application of the
ethical theory that was proposed by Kant. The report finally approaches the end with the
recommendations that might be followed in order to deal with the problems that the concerned
garment makers might be facing in terms of the various ethical issues that have surfaced in these
years.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
CSR views.......................................................................................................................4
Ethical obligations...........................................................................................................6
Ethical theory...................................................................................................................7
Recommendations..............................................................................................................10
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................11

3BLOOD, SWEAT & T-SHIRTS - A REVIEW
Introduction
Corporate Social Responsibility or the CSR refers to the various initiatives on the part of
the concerned organization to assess and own responsibility for the various effects of the
activities on the part of the company in the matters that pertain to the social and environmental
well-being of the concerned region. The term generally refers to the extra efforts that the
concerned company might afford in addition to the required matters that are put forth by the
various environmental protection and regulation groups (Crane, Matten & Spence, 2013). The
corporate social responsibility might refer to the various corporate self-regulations that might be
combined together to form a business model. The policy of corporate social responsibility is
known to be a self-regulatory policy that helps a certain business to monitor as well as ensure the
active compliance of the same in the matters pertaining to the law and the ethical standards that
are maintained by the business and the national as well as the international norms that are
followed by the concerned company (Carroll, 2015). Blood, Sweat & T-shirts is a British
documentary series that had been broadcasted on BBC Three in the year 2008. The documentary
series follows that journey of the six fashion consumers of British origin who had been travelling
to India in order to work alongside the garment producers in India in order to prepare the
garments that were to be sold at the various high-street stores in Britain. The following report
deals with the view points of the retailers portrayed in the documentary, Blood, Sweat & T-shirts
and attempts an explanation of the same. The report proceeds further to put forth the ethical
obligations that should be maintained by the retailers and the other professionals who are
involved in the process of the manufacturing and the transportation of the garments. The report
proceeds further to attempt the application of the ethical theory that was proposed by Kant. The
report finally approaches the end with the recommendations that might be followed in order to