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China Blue on PBS - the workers who make your jeans

Tue Apr 03, 2007 at 08:46:13 PM PDT

China Blue airs on many PBS stations tonight (check local listings).

Even if you aren't wearing something now that was made in China, something in your closet probably was.  This documentary  introduces you to some of the women who make clothes and the conditions they work under.  

Actually, many aren't even women.  Some are as young as 14 and work up to 20 hours a day with no overtime.  For about 6 cents an hour.

Filmmaker Micha Peled is able to show a story few people have seen before.

He became interested in how our clothes when they made the website for his previous documentary, Chain Wars - When Wal-Mart Comes to Town.

He made the film illegally in China.   And if you watch it, you can see why they don't want films like this made.

One former factory supervisor describes how they were warned when there would be an inspection.  A worker describes how there are two sets of timecards.  One for when there is an inspection.  The other for their real wages.

An interview with Peled from Your Call Radio

http://a4.g.akamai.net/...

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