facts on China - part 2

All for a pair of trainers or a piece of cheap clothing.
That's why we exploit China (and other cheap labour countries)and the earth...

But there is no such thing as cheap clothes. The real price is most obviously not paid by the people who buy the stuff. The real price is paid by the people who make it, and the earth that we at the same time are abusing with pollution etc.

The factories in China might look like nineteenth-century workhouses. Where room after room are filled with hundreds young women and men behind machines and a noise level that makes conversation impossible, or rooms filled with workers spray and hand painting products where the fumes of the paint makes it difficult to breath after just a few minutes and you feel dizzy. Most of the time the workers don't dare to look up from what they are doing, if they do they might get in trouble for not doing what they are supposed to do. They look worn out, badly fed, used up, although most of them are hardly out of their teens. Where they sleep crammed into in dead-aired dormitories, where the workers que up for a feed in a stinking canteen. Peasants straight off the farm working fourteen hours a day, doing double and triple shifts till they drop. Getting $60 a month with one day off.

However, the CEO's of the western world like the profit margins they get out here. And the customers, us, like rock-bottom prices.