Six months ago, 112 workers died when their factory burned down. Last month, another factory collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. There are several hundred workers on one floor of the factory, with the factory being 100,000 square feet, there were only two fire extinguishers. And if there were a fire, the workers would find an emergency exit door blocked by many boxes (cbsnews.com).
The children report being slapped and beaten, sometimes falling down from exhaustion, forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day, even some all-night, 19-to-20-hour shifts, seven days a week, for wages as low as 6 ½ cents an hour. The wages are so low that many of the child workers get up at 5:00 a.m. each morning to brush their teeth using just their finger and ashes from the fire, since they cannot afford a toothbrush or toothpaste (law.harvard.edu).
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