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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 8:45 pm Post subject: Blood Sweat & T Shirts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b0xsh

Six young fashion lovers swap shopping for the factories and backstreet workshops of India to learn how the clothes they wear are manufactured. They start at the top, working for Shahi Enterprises in New Delhi, a multi-million pound factory that makes clothes for some of the biggest UK high street names. They learn to sew before joining the production lines where every worker has targets to meet. Supervisors patrol the lines and, at lunch, the sexes are made to sit apart. As unskilled workers they're paid around one pound fifty a day, a basic living wage in India.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 8:49 pm Post subject:
Looks interesting. I assume the footage won't show it as bad as it can get though. One to watch

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45484
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 8:53 pm Post subject:
Dunno, apparently they film in a proper well run factory as well as a place where the staff sleep next to their machines

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 8:55 pm Post subject:
I hope we all watch this one.

Quail By Mail

Joined: 11 Apr 2008
Posts: 295
Location: Brixham, South Devon

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 08 10:45 pm Post subject:
It's a shame that it won't be on BBC1 or 2 where more people could see it. The factory is obviously going to be a halfway decent one otherwise they woudn't let the cameras in. Thanks for posting this!

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