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Did a slave make your sneakers? Probably
- robocat 8y ago> Another Taiwanese factory audit found that 82% of workers had their passports withheld. Bad reporting? How many clothing workers have passports?
- sterlind 8y ago18%, I guess? As the article says, migrant workers make up a huge majority of apparel/footwear workers in many countries. The recruiting agencies that hire them take their passports and garnish their wages in perpetuity, so they can never work off their indentured servitude or leave the country. Migrant workers are especially easy to enslave, precisely because they need passports.