How high street clothes were made by children in Myanmar for 13p an hour
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- February 6, 2017
Gethin Chamberlain
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How can Lidl sell jeans for £5.99? Easy … pay people 23p an hour to make them0
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- March 16, 2016
Gethin Chamberlain, for The Observer, 12 March 2016. Abracadabra! “Jean genie Lidl magics up £5.99 denims,” shouted the headline in a newspaper last weekend as it extolled the brilliance of the cut-price supermarket chain in once again undercutting its rivals. The German retailer, it explained, was continuing its assault on the traditional supermarket giants by targeting the
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Monsoon’s internal audits reveal suppliers used child labour and underpaid workers0
- ASIA, INDIA, INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS, WORLD
- November 21, 2010
Monsoon, the fashion retailer, proclaims its fair trade values, but its internal audits reveal concern at suppliers’ failures to meet minimum ethical standards in India and China Gethin Chamberlain, in Delhi, for The Observer Monsoon, the fashion chain that pioneered ethical shopping, has used suppliers in India who employ child labour and pay workers below the
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Jordan’s perfume bottled by workers paid £2.05 per day0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- June 13, 2010
Gethin Chamberlain, in Mumbai, for The Observer, 13 June 2010 Workers at a factory in India have been paid just 26p an hour to make perfume bottles for England World Cup sponsor Umbro and the glamour model Katie Price, better known as Jordan. An Observer investigation found that the 7,000 employees at the factory in Gujarat
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The expensive ‘Italian’ shoes made for a pittance in east European sweatshops0
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- August 21, 2016
A troubling study claims that workers producing UK high street brands are enduring low pay and poor conditions Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 21 August 2016 Campaigners claim millions of shoppers are being led to believe the expensive shoes they buy in high-street stores are made in Germany and Italy – when many are actually
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Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don’t care about child slave labour.4
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- July 28, 2013
Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye Gethin Chamberlain, for The Observer, 28 July 2013 Until three years ago I did not believe in magic. But that was before I began investigating how western brands
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How high street clothes were made by children in Myanmar for 13p an hour0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- February 6, 2017
Children of 14 were working a six-day week Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 5 February 2017 Children as young as 14 have been employed to make clothes for some of the most popular names on the UK high street, according to a new report. New Look, Sports Direct’s Lonsdale brand and H&M have all used
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Hell for leather: how low paid workers made Theresa May’s trousers0
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- December 18, 2016
Gethin Chamberlain, for the Sunday Mirror, 18 December 2016 Theresa May’s £995 leather trousers are made in a Turkish factory by workers paid as little as £1.49 an hour. The Prime Minister’s luxury Amanda Wakeley desert pants last week triggered a spat between No10 and former Tory Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. Ms Morgan was barred
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