Child Labor: Teenager Sews Clothing for Hanes and Puma

This 18 year-old works in a factory in Bangladesh making clothing for Hanes and Puma. (2006) For more information visit www.nlcnet.org

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• human
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• hanes
• puma
• child

[vader193478]

I don't know if it helps but I threw away most of my clothing today, I saved just enough to get through a work week plus sum coats. I will buy from goodwill or search online for made in USA if I need to replace underwear ect. This is sad, I feel like a greedy American, however, I used to live on the street / was homless.

[Chaingangsoldiernit]

how do we even know that this shit is true you ask?

well...hmm lemme beat the livin shit outta u and make u work 12 hours a day bitch...oh yh and no refreshments for u :D

[dbmasta]

Nice shirt.

[Maloy7800]

"What do you say to the American people who buy this underwear?" YEAH, this video is UNbiased. It's absolutely objective and truthful. DUH! Next time you want to "raise concern" do it in a believable way. And if this guy really is in all that danger, his effort was in vain - and it's YOUR fault.

[OurBestMusicChannel]

teens working is not child labor, there's nothing wrong with teens working... quite the opposite... but there's a much wrong with not respecting workers rights regardless of the age of the worker

[musicalidea]

@gaesong Yes. Like we did until the 1980s and 90s when the trade agreements were shoved through! Fuck the GOP and the DNC for joining forces to sell us to their to their Wall ST owners.

[musicalidea]

@BlankDVD Were shirts $100 (in real dollars) from the 40s - the early 70s when all of our clothes were made here, under the fair labor standards act & often with the protection of labor unions? No. In fact, only about 1/100 of the purchase cost of Wal-mart pair of jeans is going to production wages. Ur argument rests upon degree, not kind: and u completely distort the reality. No1 who works shouldn't own; no1 who owns shouldn't work: the corporation is a 17th C legal fiction in need of revision!

[OurBestMusicChannel]

I don't thinkt the problem is child labor per se but lack of human rights in the working place. I worked in a factory when I was 11 because I needed money to buy me a piano and it was a positive after-school experience that actually made me a better a person. I know there are kids commettees in poor countries that ask for the right to work and support their family and fight against this prejudice that whanever a young person is working it must be an abuse or a terrible experience.

[BlankDVD]

@urbanlion100 I hope you are not responsibile for making posters when you are out protesting with your pesudo-humanitarians. "Piece Out!"

[Chaingangsoldiernit]

@urbanlion100 WTF are you typing about? Have you clearly read my comment? Do you comprehend the assertion that I am trying to make?

[urbanlion100]

@SleepySkeptic what are you suggesting? If you got nothing to say keep your fingers off the keyboard. Small time CSI