Blood, Sweat, T-Shirts, You, Wear, Suffering

I've not got around to watching this yet but some enlightened and trustworthy colleagues have been telling me about Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts in which a bunch of British fashion-mongers go and work in some typical Indian sweatshops that produce the clothes that we buy for anything between 50p in Primark to £150 in some swanky up itself gitshop for essentially the same article produced in the same hell-hole by the same people for the same horrendous quality of life.

Or as the programme's website says:

Six young fashion addicts experience life as factory workers in India, making clothes for the British high street. In this four-part series, the six work in the mills of India’s cotton belt and stitch clothes in cramped back rooms, sleeping next to their sewing machine. See how it changes their attitudes to cut-price clothing.

Gonna have to iPlayer that one.

Meanwhile with the global credit crunch going on and bills rocketing companies that do try to make things for a fair price and charge a realistic price for them go out of business.