FA32 Societal Issues in Apparel Manufacturing. Menu 1. Child labor 2. Sweatshops 3. Low wages.
Sweatshops in India
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Imagine working 18 or more hours in a day, getting paid cents per item that might take you almost an hour to make, no real toilet facilities, no breaks, no healthcare, barely enough money to buy food for yourself
or your family. From ‘No more USA made clothing’
A BOY of seven has been found working 98 hours a week in a sweatshop making cheap Christmas goods for the high street.
He was earning just 15 cents an hour and doing a 14-hour day, from 9am to 11pm seven days a week in a slum in Indian capital Delhi.
From the Sun ‘Slumdog, 7, works 98 hours a week’
Many of the sweatshops in Mumbai are hidden up ladders and out of sight. Photographer Nicholas Adams gained access to this sweatshop in
the Dharavi Slum, Mumbai, where a child was working by himself amongst stacks and stacks of products for export. From Urban Times
This garment factory in Kolkata has good working conditions. From The Telegraph
Workers at a Fair Trade certified factory in Kolkata, India, making apparel for prAna.
Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229444#ixzz2sEppT8V7
This startling image shows tightly packed workers producing garments for Nike, a sports clothing company. The rows of workers stretch as far as
the eye can see in this huge factory. From Urban Times