China Labor Watch’s July 2025 report Fast Fashion, Slow Justice examines labour conditions in garment workshops reportedly linked to SHEIN’s supply chain in Kangle Village, Guangzhou, and frames the findings as a risk-based assessment rather than definitive legal conclusions.    The report states it draws on more than 50 worker interviews, multiple on-site visits, and desktop research conducted between 2019 and 2025 on SHEIN supplier factories in Guangzhou, while using pseudonyms to protect participants.    It links SHEIN’s ultra-fast production model (reported as 4–10 days from design to launch, and up to 6,000 new low-cost items daily) to a fragmented workshop ecosystem that can make enforcement of labour standards difficult and leaves migrant workers especially vulnerable.    Based on interviews, workers described piece-rate compensation (reported at roughly USD $0.07–$0.28 per item, depending on task complexity), long shifts often exceeding 10 hours/day and sometimes 12+ hours, and peak-season production continuing late into the night (reported as until 3–4 a.m.), alongside allegations of no overtime pay.    The report further alleges that during a production surge (December 2024–February 2025) some workers worked seven days per week and that management “withheld wages to discourage workers from leaving,” which it notes could raise forced-labour concerns under international standards; it also describes post-shift economic volatility and job losses after April 25, 2025, when the report says SHEIN announced a price increase.  Occupational health and safety risks cited include the reported absence of PPE (e.g., masks) in dusty/fiber environments and observed fire-safety concerns in dense urban-village workshops (e.g., narrow corridors, clutter, flammable materials).  Social risks extend to child welfare: interviews suggest underage work may occur (e.g., 15–16-year-olds assisting alongside parents), and that young children may be present in workshops due to lack of childcare, exposing them to hazards from equipment, irons, dyes, and dust; the report also notes “left-behind children” dynamics when families send school-age children back to rural hometowns.  In governance and traceability, the report alleges “possible unauthorized subcontracting,” describing a network of hundreds of small suppliers (some apparently converted from residential units, with fewer than 10 workers) and warns that such practices could heighten regulatory, reputational, and commercial risks absent stronger safeguards and transparency across tiers and subcontractors.  It also highlights an open-source-based “credible risk” that some products (especially for non-U.S. markets) may include textile inputs originating from Xinjiang, referencing reported strategic linkages involving the Guangqing Textile and Garment Industry Orderly Transfer Park and its logistics partner (Guangzhou North Zhongda Fashion Technology City), and noting that some Xinjiang-linked companies referenced are associated with forced-labour-related sanctions/entity lists in public reporting.    The report situates these issues against international and regulatory expectations (e.g., UNGPs/OECD guidance and emerging due diligence requirements referenced in the report) and recommends supplier mapping and stronger anti-subcontracting controls, worker-rights reforms (including more formal employment arrangements beyond piece-rate reliance), and broader policy action (e.g., due diligence and transparency laws, enforcement measures, and closing trade loopholes).    Finally, it reproduces a March 25, 2025 statement attributed to SHEIN in which the company says it does not own or operate manufacturing facilities, relies on third-party suppliers globally (including in China), requires suppliers to follow its Supplier Code of Conduct prohibiting forced/child labour and wage/working-hours abuses, and asserts it could not verify China Labor Watch’s findings without access to the underlying report, while describing audit/remediation and supplier support programs.