Date of publication: November 2, 2007
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Author: Robyn Blumner
The headline "Indian 'slave' children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap," in last week's Observer online must have caused massive indigestion for the PR pixies who burnish the Gap's image as a good corporate egg.
he paper's investigation uncovered a Dickensian sweatshop in India where children as young as 10 toiled in slave-like conditions to produce Gap-labeled clothes. The children at the New Delhi factory were consigned to lives of depravation and violence, forced to work 16-hour days and beaten if they cried from exhaustion. Some interviewed by the Observer hadn't been paid for months...