India sweatshop raid finds children doing embroidery NEW DELHI — With Gap Inc. under fire for selling clothes made by children in India, activists and police raided a sweatshop in New Delhi where 14 boys were embroidering women’s garments Monday, illustrating the widespread problem of child labor in the South Asian country. The children were as young as 10, came from a poor farming district on the other side of the country and said they had never been given promised wages for working up to 15 hours a day embroidering sequins onto the flowing saris worn by Indian women. The working and living conditions in the sweatshop just blocks from where the Gap clothes were being made were grim — the boys were packed into a filthy room, sleeping on the same floor where they sewed all day. Monday’s raid came a day after Britain’s Observer newspaper reported that children as young as 10 were found sewing clothes for the Gap in a New Delhi factory.
This certainly is a 'Gap' in ideals.......West meet East,,,,East meet West......or is it...... pan meet kettle and kettle meet pan???? You cant be a pimp and a prostitute too......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The unions should start promoting their labor laws to these third world countries. There is clearly no need for them in this country anymore. But overseas is in real need.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I remember going shopping for clothes and I knew the size I was. So I could just go into the store, pick out what I wanted in the size I wore and bought it. Without trying it on. The sizes were consistant then. TODAY, I have to try everything on before I buy it. The same size does not always fit. They all fit differently. The same thing with shoes also. We never had th is problem when they were made in this country.
JoAnn that's because when all the sizes were correct we had a standard that the manufacturers in this country followed as far as sizes went. Now the clothes/shoes are made all over the world by people some of who can't even read let alone follow directions, but the clothes are made cheaper than the USA can make them.
Shadow, you are correct. I guess we traded good quality for cheap quanity.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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