Santa's Workshop - Inside China's Slave Labour Toy Factories

Sometimes we have no choice, we work till dawn. When you work all night you become dizzy and your eyes hurt because you can't take any breaks. SANTA'S WORKSHOP takes you to the real world of China's toy factories. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages, and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organize trade unions risk imprisonment. Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment.

The European (and American) buyers blame bad conditions on the Chinese suppliers. But they say that increasingly hard competition gives them no option. Who should we believe? And what can you do to bring about a fairer and more humane toy trade?

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[giokonas]

Satan's Workshop

[gyouaredone]

"the consumers are not willing to pay the extra cost"...bull shit! the extra cost of environment protection and decent working condition should be included in the price of any product; the result would be fair enough also for business: higher prices => less products => less consumers => same profit; we are not supposed to buy the same product/service; it's boring and without personality! stupid mass market businessmen and consumers

who ruin every bit of this earth!

[TheDorapapi321]

shut up thai ampallang, drink your own piss if the water is no good

[nityanandi]

"Who is responsible [for this]?" the narrator just asked. I am and you are, however we are situated, whether as factory owners, merchandise vendors, purchasers.

No compromise. You cannot *afford* it. What you have done to another, you have done to yourself.

[TimeManInJail]

lol china bleed itself to become partially wealthy.

[bigotmaster]

the world will always need its slaves.. making slavery 'voluntary', the cleverest move liberalism ever made obfuscating reality, shifting blame from slave master to slave.. 'blame yourself for your living and working conditions', this is what they want you to think in the name of so-called 'individualism' and 'freedom of choice', it is after all 'your choice', right?.. until we create robots to do all the work man finds tedious and unhealthy, the world will always need its slaves

[ASeventhSign]

This is why I laugh at douchebag hipsters that espouse the glory of communism with their little earbuds in their ears and their trendy smartphone on their hip.

[xLostInThisWorldx]

@gyouaredone True. And if shops all put their prices up to cover a decent living condition for the workers in China then people would have to pay. If that's what needs to be done they should. They should care for the produces the same as they are "caring" for their buyers by not raising the price.... so a child's parents can afford one less toy at Christmas due to the price rise... I know which side I'm on.

Man I hate people sometimes.

[exxodas]

16:57 With just one glance, her eyes explained this horrible situation in its entirety. I've seen enough...

[dimondskyable]

Damn man they deserve their eight hours of work, two hours overtime. They don't even have a life outside, its like prison. Its sin to pressure them to work like that.

[truvianni]

this is why we need to invest more in India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia which also have hard working populations 

[truvianni]

@gyouaredone well put