Fashion Victims:Inside the Sweat Shops of Los Angeles

And yet it is almost entirely hidden from public view. The 160,000 workers who eke out their living here are subject to the whims of employers, who hire and fire them at will. Typically, they are subjected to a regime of rigged time clocks, undeclared overtime, unsanitary workplaces, stifling heat – and, sometimes, beatings and sexual abuse. Many of them do not know what the minimum wage is, much less receive it.

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