In the 3rd world children are sitting working at looms making rugs, from the crack of dawn until late night. They can be as young as five years old.
They eat at the loom, there isn't any play.
They are beaten if they stop working.
When they are ill and can hardly sit up straight, they still have to keep up the same pace. They are shown no mercy.
Since I came to learn of this practice of using such labour, I won't by a rug from a store, unless they will show me proof, that the rug wasn't made by slave labour. Many stores are now labelling rugs to this end.
Do you ask this question when buying one?
Has slave labour been used in making this rug?
2007-02-23
05:23:48
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