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The #Barbie hype is a great time to talk about toy sweatshops:
“Between shifts the workers, mostly young women, their faces set in exhaustion, shuffle from building to building…
Li Mei is worn out, so she looks older than her 18 years. Her skin is bad from too little daylight and she has many healing and still-open cuts on her hands.”
(Extract from a 2007 book by Eric Clark)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475640/Mattels-real-toy-story-slave-labour-sweatshops.html
More on #Barbie and sweatshop production.
In the real world, it ain’t magical portals, people.
Here a recent report by China Labour Watch:
https://chinalaborwatch.org/workers-in-misery-an-investigation-into-two-toy-factories-2/
Hat-tip to Priyamvada Gopal for reminding me of toys’ sweatshop issues.
#Capitalism #Labour #Sweatshops #LabourRights #Feminism #Toys