The price of dignity
Business is imposing virtual slavery in the developing world - and
only we, the consumers, can stop it
Anita Roddick
Monday September 22, 2003
The Guardian
In the past two years, 500 export assembly factories have shut down in
Mexico, throwing 218,000 workers on to the street. Their crime was the
$1.26-an-hour base wage they were paid by companies such as Alcoa
Fujikura to produce auto parts for export to the US. Those wages are
now "too high" in the global economy.
Never mind that the Alcoa workers in Acuna live in makeshift cardboard
huts that lack potable water. Never mind that many of the workers in
nearby Piedras Negras were selling their blood plasma twice a week to
Baxter International for $30 in order to survive. Those same auto
parts are now being made in Honduras by workers earning 59 cents an
hour, in Nicaragua for 40 cents an hour and in China for 27 cents an
hour.
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