tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post1657780162380789511..comments2023-11-29T13:13:23.022+00:00Comments on newgate news: Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt...*Macheathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-46057888663315835272010-11-10T03:20:19.896+00:002010-11-10T03:20:19.896+00:00So they will find that the UK is no bargain and re...So they will find that the UK is no bargain and return to the sweatshops they came from.malpashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03465468581504191466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-49390881403335853862010-11-08T11:00:14.720+00:002010-11-08T11:00:14.720+00:00May I disagree? I knew the hosiery industry very ...May I disagree? I knew the hosiery industry very well back in the 1940's in Leicester. Also I handled the products on the railway in the 1950's. This means I knew people who had worked there over a hundred years ago and some indeed born in the 1870's. Also, for family reasons I have been running around the Census returns for the 19th Century there. It was not as bad as then as it is now, if anything it is now very much worse. Then they were free workers and mobile. Now very many of them are imported serfs or slaves.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-82960436020698060092010-11-08T08:10:51.534+00:002010-11-08T08:10:51.534+00:00JuliaM, since Dispatches claim that many of the wo...JuliaM, since Dispatches claim that many of the workers are here on student visas, presumably courtesy of the kind of colleges subject to a recent crackdown, you're probably right.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see whether the programme actually mentions that particular elephant in the sweatshop...Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-85939615021266920102010-11-08T05:31:29.525+00:002010-11-08T05:31:29.525+00:00"It's bad enough when these workers are o...<i>"It's bad enough when these workers are on the other side of the world from the customers - when they could be living in the next street it becomes downright immoral."</i><br /><br />To what extent has this been driven by unrestricted immigration? <br /><br />You say that it's bad enough 'when they are living on the other side of the world'. But how many have just arrived here from the other side of the world <i>exactly for that purpose</i>..?JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.com