An interesting article in the Phom Penh Post (large newspaper in Cambodia) yesterday. It is not an industry expose, but rather outlines graphically some of the conditions in garment factories in the developing world. Of course factories have to compete for business & the main criterion of choice from Western retailers is lowest price. In order for us to be able to buy low price clothing factory workers in the developing world work such long hours, with such exhaustion & mal-nutrition that mass fainting episodes are common. Here a government initiative to train the works on how to avoid fainting!! Is there no hope of training Western consumers to pay slightly more thus solving the cause rather than a limp effort to alleviate one symptom?
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012100959175/National-news/workers-given-lesson-in-how-not-to-faint.html
