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| | AlterNet: Poverty-Chic: Diesel's New Line |
 | | Earlier this summer, as I read news reports of deadly crossings along the U.S.-Mexican border, I caught a preview for the new fall line from Diesel, the Italian clothing company, on display at one of its New York flagship stores. |
 | | Though Diesel's jeans are made solely in Italy, many of its other garments are manufactured overseas, where offshore production zones (in Mexico, Guatemala and Taiwan, for example) provide the benefits of low taxes, low wage standards, lax regulations and limited unionization. |
 | | After all, Diesel clothes, as the company's subhead proclaims, are "For Successful Living." But the last time I checked, washing dishes, digging ditches, and sewing garments -- the jobs that trabajadores often do -- weren't considered glamorous. |
| www.alternet.org /story/16636 (869 words) |
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