Cambodia, a ‘sweatshop-free nation’? Try telling that to its expolited workers, writes Heather Stilwell.
When it comes to the way our clothes are made, there are some things that the brands, factory owners and governments would rather we didn’t know.
Last year, when I was packing for a move to Cambodia, I went out to the high-street clothing store H&M and bought a stack of plain, $10 T-shirts, without even thinking about their provenance. When I arrived in Cambodia, I discovered that nearly 300 female workers had recently fainted in a factory that makes clothes for the Swedish transnational.
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