Since its founding, the association has inspected more than 1,300 factories in Asia and Latin America, uncovering myriad violations. But despite these successes, many labor advocates say its efforts have barely made a dent in improving working conditions.
“The Fair Labor Association is largely a fig leaf,” said Jeff Ballinger, director of Press for Change, a labor rights group. “There’s all this rhetoric from corporate social responsibility people and the big companies that they want to improve labor standards, but all the pressure seems to be going the other direction — they’re trying to force prices down.”
See, the upshot is, critics think Apple is insincere. It wants to paper over the problem rather than tackle the problem head on.
Paper over the problem? Yes, you put a piece of paper over it to hide the problem from view.
It’s the same as trying to put a fig leaf over it, which brings us to the main question of today: What is a fig leaf?
A fig leaf is a leaf from the fig tree. Aside from the real flowerless tree, fig leave are most often seen in medieval-time European oil paintings. I’m sure you’ve seen them. You cannot miss them.
Painting nudes were once not allowed and so painters put a fig leaf over the genitals of a man to hide his modesty.
Or his shame, as shame is another common euphemism for the troubled area in question. Quite appropriate it is too because the “fig leaf” came straight from the Bible and was first used by Adam and Eve discovered “shame” for the first time, having eaten the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. This, from the Book of Genesis:
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