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Originally Posted by VivianLampwork
They said in the video that working conditions were good for India standards. Also, they pay is considered very good. Look on the labels of things around your house & the clothes you wear. Most are made in foreign countries. Sure, those working conditions are bad in comparison to what we have in the USA, but what would happen to those people if they didn't have those jobs?
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^ you have a point to some degree, but that doesn't make it right to have people working in such unhealthy, even deadly, conditions. Do you think there's much in the way of insurance, income protection or healthcare if one of these workers injures himself/herself in the course of making a 10c bangle?
Also, what caste do you think these workers belong to? They, and their children and their grand children are destined to this kind of work according to the very strict caste system in India, never to have the opportunity to rise to anything higher than what they are now ... people seem to forget about that when talking about India. It's not a place I'm interested in ever going to!