Primark child labour

[Bruv]

Anyone see Panorama about child labour producing cheap gear for Primark ?

I seem to remember Asda boasting kitting out kids for school for only £10.


Is paying kids 50p for a days work so wrong when the alternative might be hunger ?

[terrywit]

it not all that long ago children where working in factorys in the uk rather than happy slapping & stabbing one another?

[poppy]

Originally Posted by Bruv2

Anyone see Panorama about child labour producing cheap gear for Primark ?

I seem to remember Asda boasting kitting out kids for school for only £10.


Is paying kids 50p for a days work so wrong when the alternative might be hunger ?

there is always the other alternative. Pay them a fair wage. If they paid 1/4 of the British minimum wage they would still be quids in.
Exploiting kids is wrong, suggesting the only alternative is to not employ them and to let them starve is, just propaganda and emotional blackmail.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by poppy

there is always the other alternative. Pay them a fair wage. If they paid 1/4 of the British minimum wage they would still be quids in.
Exploiting kids is wrong, suggesting the only alternative is to not employ them and to let them starve is, just propaganda and emotional blackmail.

I think the program more or less said that poppy, in a roundabout sort of a way, the guy at the end said its was like a catch 22 position, if you stop buying the cloths they stave anyway, its like being between a rock and a hard place

[poppy]

Now I feel bad for never having bought them, if ever I see anything that is so low priced that it has to be child labour I dont buy.
But I do think that statement is more a salve for the western conscience, we could all pay a bit more and the stuff would still be cheap.
I am sure the same was said about mill kids and mining kids in this country, so the industrialists could keep all their huge profits.
But we abolished that, and the kids survived.
There are always ways to achieve an end if it is really wanted.

[Churchill]

If you don't buy them the little urchins starve.

The problem here is not a 'consumer without conscience' but a source country that manufactures without any employment laws. Consequently we can't compete with emerging economies on manufacturing.

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by poppy

so the industrialists could keep all their huge profits.

the hippy cliche, I guess philanthropist ain't in the vocab?

[poppy]

Originally Posted by terrywit

the hippy cliche, I guess philanthropist ain't in the vocab?

You aint wrong there Tel

[terrywit]

Originally Posted by poppy

You aint wrong there Tel

so the great temperance industrialists sort of past you by?

Originally Posted by poppy

there is always the other alternative. Pay them a fair wage. If they paid 1/4 of the British minimum wage they would still be quids in.

We are NOT talking U.K ecconomy here.

50 pence per day IS a fair wage, in an ecconomy that if they were paid 1/4 British minimum wage would probably leave them coming home with more money per week than the bloody PRESIDENT of said country.

Britain has SIMILAR examples of what happens. "holiday" cottages. People get much more money than the "locals" and all of a sudden the "locals" can not afford to live in their own town any more.

Increasing the wages of these..... "kids", would do EXACTLY the same there.