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By Rosa Baum und Gloria Keller

The old world knew the slaves. They were the bearers of the bad conscience of their time. Modern times invented the loser. This figure, found halfway between yesterday's exploited and today's and tomorrow's superfluous, is the unknown value in the power games of democracies.

(Peter Sloterdijk: Rage and time)

In our globalized society, textile workers in Asia are among the losers. Again and again the textile industry has seen collapses and fires in the factories. In textile products, there have been found cries for help sewn in them, we used these texts in our textile work.