Third-World children slave so Barbie can accessorize

Robyn Blumner
Salt Lake Tribune
11/02/2007

The headline "Indian 'slave' children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap," in last week's Observer online must have caused massive indigestion for the PR pixies who burnish the Gap's image as a good corporate egg.

he paper's investigation uncovered a Dickensian sweatshop in India where children as young as 10 toiled in slave-like conditions to produce Gap-labeled clothes. The children at the New Delhi factory were consigned to lives of depravation and violence, forced to work 16-hour days and beaten if they cried from exhaustion. Some interviewed by the Observer hadn't been paid for months...

 

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