Saturday, 1 November 2014

62p AN HOUR: What women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet's £45 'This Is What A Feminist Looks Like' T-shirts


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Feminist T-shirts proudly worn by Ed Miliband (bottom left), Nick Clegg (centre left) and Harriet Harman (top left) are made in 'sweatshop' conditions by migrant women (centre) paid just 62p an hour, a Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed. The women machinists on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius sleep 16 to a room - and earn much less than the average wage on the island. The £45 T-shirts carry the defiant slogan 'This is what a feminist looks like' (pictured centre, held by machinists who make the T-shirts). But one of the thousands of machinists declared: 'We do not see ourselves as feminists. We see ourselves as trapped.'

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