Dubai Construction, Gap Clothing
Ben Preiss — October 29, 2007 — World
References: washingtonpost & news.yahoo
Clothing retailer Gap had to "forcefully reiterate" its prohibition on child labor after a British newspaper very inconveniently found children as young as 10 working at a sweatshop in New Delhi, making clothes for Gap.
Dubai, with a population of 1.5 million, has been the feature of many hot posts here at Trend Hunter, receiving attention for their unusual and often enormous construction projects. These projects are being built by an army of over a million mostly South Asian workers whose salary has been eroded by the falling dollar. They earn about $1 an hour and no longer have money left at the end of the month to send home. Many of them work for a year or two essentially in indentured servitude. Now they are on strike and the old solution would have been to deport everyone but as it is Dubai has a 40% shortage of workers for their massive projects and has to think about it's PR as it is a tourist destination.
Dubai, with a population of 1.5 million, has been the feature of many hot posts here at Trend Hunter, receiving attention for their unusual and often enormous construction projects. These projects are being built by an army of over a million mostly South Asian workers whose salary has been eroded by the falling dollar. They earn about $1 an hour and no longer have money left at the end of the month to send home. Many of them work for a year or two essentially in indentured servitude. Now they are on strike and the old solution would have been to deport everyone but as it is Dubai has a 40% shortage of workers for their massive projects and has to think about it's PR as it is a tourist destination.
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