Foot Work - What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation

'It is the shoe bible' - Trash Club

'A pioneering, pugnacious study' - Nature Journal

‘Absorbing, meticulous and at times completely horrifying’ - Lucy Siegle

‘A superb primer on everything that is wrong with our world – and how we can start to change it’ - New Internationalist

In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufactured across the world every single day. They have never been cheaper to buy, and we have never been more convinced that we need to buy them. Yet their cost to the planet has never been greater.

In this urgent, passionately argued book, Tansy Hoskins opens our eyes to the dark origins of the shoes on our feet and reveals an industry ten years behind the rest of the fashion industry in terms of transparency, ecology and human rights.

Taking us deep into the heart of an industry that is exploiting workers and deceiving consumers, we begin to understand that if we don't act fast, this humble household object will take us to the point of no return.

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‘Fascinating and eye-opening, Foot Work shows brilliantly how a simple everyday object can shed light on the hidden costs of globalisation and environmental degradation’ - Owen Jones

‘Bracingly well written, this is a work of love, research and polemic’ - Morning Star

'Hoskins is a remarkable storyteller; as I visualised her rich, intense, and profound stories, I thought to myself that this important book must be adapted into a documentary film' Sven Segal, The Better Shoes Foundation