EA00110131
MADE IN CHINA
New Orleans carnival revellers throw shiny beads to pretty girls to get them to take off their clothes. But where do the beads come from? This acclaimed film visits a factory in China to reveal the human realities of globalisation.

The Chinese factory workers, mainly teenage girls, work long hours for low pay, and are "punished" for making mistakes or missing quotas. The Chinese factory boss says punishment is crucial to productivity.

The workers earn 1 cent for every 12 necklaces they make ¨C necklaces which in the US sell for as much as $20 dollars each. The US holiday-makers who flock to the carnival have no idea of the conditions in which the beads they buy are made.

Both the Chinese factory boss and the US company who buy the beads from China deny charges of exploitation. If the young Chinese girls didn't work in the factory, the US boss claims, they'd be labouring in the fields, doing harder, more poorly paid work.

The film climaxes when carnival-goers in the US are shown the harsh realities in the factory which makes their beads, and the Chinese factory girls see what happens to the beads they make. Both sides are shocked.
DVD
33 minutes
2006
 
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