These huge wealthy companies could pay these workers a fair wage. If there was a universal equal income for factory workers their lives would be so much better, but that’s just not going to happen. Not in our world today. $$$ runs the world and the poor are always the ones that are taken advantage of sadly.

I wonder why so less likes for such a wonderful investigative documentary. Well done whole team

I fundamentally agree with the stance taken in this documentary. But I can't help thinking about the consequences of this film. .... Monoprix will send someone to "make changes" in Bangladesh. So that means that precious 12 year old girl will no longer have a job. Yeah👏👏👏. Right? But she wasn't working for extra spending money. She was working because her family is "shanty town" poor. If she doesn't work her family doesn't eat and her parents are sick also. Just because she is not working doesn't mean she is in school, doesn't mean her parents are miraculously capable of working. It means it is worse than before. Because she allowed herself to be filmed, hence used by the people filming, her life will become infinitely more difficult. Don't misunderstand me. I am not for this young girl continuing in this sweat shop. She should be in school. That woman was interviewed in her office in France. I bet she or her colleagues have children. Would they want their children to work basically 60 hours every week in their posh neighborhood in France. They turn a blind eye to the conditions where their clothes are made. Let's remove the underage girl and see what we have left. It is still a slum made out of corrugated steel, no running water and sanitary bathroom facilities. The people in France know what it looks like and what is going on. In capitalistic 1st world countries money is all important. So people from first world countries hire people in 3rd world countries without having to provide social, financial, or moral under pinnings

Great work guys! You kept them in their toes with your in depth investigation 👍

Zara clothes are actually quite expensive here in Canada.

This is horrible. Earth is hell.

Sandblasted jeans is the most ridiculous thing ever invented, wear your jeans out by wearing them !!!

Eye opening content

Smh this is heart breaking

The narrator is really funny 😂 and the choice of music @16:04 😂…. But oh well we got the message.

This documentary was made in 2012, if I have the date right. Now, so many years later... does anyone know what has changed? For the better.

price of my clothes rose, not fallen :/

Thank you guys so much at this channel for putting this out!! It's so crazy how they all deflect and would rather say, "hOw DiD yOu gEt ThiS iNfOrMaTiOn," than just answer the gd question. insane

This is how some countries have it easy, by further promoting slave labor jobs nowadays.... Days of slavery ain't over....

You enforced the law but hurt the ones you tried to protect. They need the money so what is their recourse now? I’m torn. Either way its a lose lose situation

The “casual criminalist” is that you?! 😂

I wish American made was more affordable. I’ve looked into it & just not in my budget, & second hand stores prices are practically retail price.

I am sorry for a very stupid question.Where to buy cloths ? What componies are not using child labour and so on? I don't know what to do honestely. I go to 2-nd hand shops and buy a lot of stuff from them.Like Salvqtion Army shops, etc. But, sometimes I need a new clothes, undergarment. What to do in this situation? H&M-no good there was docimantary.And a similar companies....

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Uses a different alias but happy to show his face on camera 🤦

Highly unlikely that all of them are the appropriate age to be working 60 hour weeks and they work them twice to three times as much as they say they do. These companies are disgusting. The cheaper the price the worse the conditions for the people making the clothes.

In Brazil it was normal, take the bus early in the morning goes to working I had only 12 years old and after that, study in the night Hight School grade, it was normal when I was young🙄😔😰

So you put that young girl in danger?

This is like black lung disease happening in the US! Gasping for breath is a horrible way to die!

You should have blurred the workers face you were interviewing after work.

The clothes are not cheap

The tone and pace of the narrators upbeat voice and comments, while clearly intending to use sarcasm to make the people who exploit workers like this look stupid and bad, to me felt wrong for the topic of this video. Almost as if it was supposed to be some sort of entertaining comedy, rather than an attempt to open peoples eyes to the suffering that goes into the cheap fashion clothing items, that due to the cheap prices, people buy many more of than they need to actually dress themselves suitably. I dont think the makers of this video intended it to come across as cheap entertainment, I am just saying that the tone and pace of the narrator, imo, is not the most appropriate for this topic and for me it would have been more compelling with more serious English narration/voice over. I found it distracting while watching. I also do wonder what is the best thing those of us in 1st world countries can do to help this situation? We can stop buying cheap clothing altogether, but if everyone did that these companies would have less work and possibly a lot of these people who have these shitty jobs, would have no job at all What can we do as consumers to stop this sort of exploitation, without making these people completely unemployed? How can we ensure they get paid more, and from my perspective, these factories also start producing better quality clothing, or other products? I personally usually buy from op shops and one reason is because everything you buy new these days is terrible quality and falls to bits, and if clothing, its size is often different from one garment to the next (of the exact same brand and design) and the construction and fabric is very poor quality. Im not blaming the workers, it is clear at the prices it is sold for that it is not possible to make a quality product as the prices do not pay for enough labour that they can take the time to construct it properly nor do the prices allow manufacturers to use quality materials. But I am saying that me, and other people I speak to, are tired of buying cheap poorly made goods and we actually want to pay more for decent quality products. But now it is literally impossible to find someone selling decent quality products, there is only lots of companies, all selling their own version of poorly made crappy products. I am just not sure what we can do as consumers, to force these places to make decent quality products which last, and sell them at a reasonable price (which I would be happy to pay, id rather pay more for things that last than buy cheap shit I have to throw away and then buy a replacement for). And i think this is the question we all need to be answering. How can we make it clear we want better quality products and will pay for them? At the moment we all buy cheaply made products most likely made by companies exploiting workers. But even when we want to do better we literally cant, as there is often no one selling anything of decent quality. Even the expensive brand names are still getting their products made by exploited workers, you are often just paying more for the same shit. I think someone needs to start educating us as to how and where we can source decent quality alternatives, products which will last, made by workers who are paid properly, and work in safe environments, that we will naturally need to pay more for, but will last and in the long term cost us less. How do we stop buying shit made by exploited workers, if there is only shit (made by exploited workers) for sale?

Hey it’s justified in the name of Money

The consequence of your team action to the life of those child in bangladesh please think about that. They work to life, because they are poor unless you guys adopt them & pay for their life until adult then you guys can leisurely do what you did 😢 according to local law they are illegal to work 60 hours but they need to live, don't make their life harser.

Without these sweatshops, millions will be pushed into destitution. It is a hard life. But it provides a roof over the head. Things would've been far worse if these sweatshops weren't there.

Love the narrator.