Comments on: Panorama, Primark, Child Labour and the Alexa Chung factor

By: lavina

lavina — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:49:20 +0000

primark should let them make clothes for them so they dont need to be poor. what they need to do is raise there payments!!!!!

By: dorothy

dorothy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:19:12 +0000

nicola i agree with you
love u 2 x

By: dorothy

dorothy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:11:38 +0000

we think primark should not do child labour at all
love you xxxx

By: Nicola

Nicola — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:38:17 +0000

it is terrible this is what they do to these children and then they lie saying that they do not use child labour its terrible

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:59:30 +0000

The net result of the Panorama expose is that Primark pulled work from three factories; all those people lose work at short notice. Primark merely re-positions. Child labour is awful but better than starving. Do you really think that those children will now go to school?

By: MartinButtle

MartinButtle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:30:53 +0000

Thanks Andy and Trudy for your comments.The Ethical Trading Company looks like an interesting initiative. Its important that these communities can earn money without resorting to child labour.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:54:38 +0000

Trudy, how exactly do you know that other companies are not exploiting people too? Higher prices generally just mean higher margins, not that more is being spent on the supply chain.

I fear that Primark is becoming the Tesco of the clothing world, an easy target because of lazy reporting that just focuses upon one player. Clearly Primark is not alone.

Furthermore, why do we always have to rely on the lowest common denominator? It’s miles travelled with food and now child labour for human rights. Child labour in itself isn’t wrong, the reality is this is the only way many families can earn enough money to feed and clothe themselves. More important is guaranteeing their safety , wages and quality of surroundings.

By: Trudy

Trudy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:35:10 +0000

With risk of sounding like a cliche i think we can all do our bit to change what we don’t like in the world. By not buying from really cheap shops who clearly must be expoiting someone to give us the prices we have now we can literally ‘vote with our purchases’ or non-purchases so more high street shops and companies take the issue of valuing the people that make what we wear and the environment more seriously.

Check out http://www.ethicaltradingcompany.com – set up to counteract so much of what was revealed in last night’s documentary.

It produces beautiful clothes and accessories at reasonable prices, is environmentally friendly and fair trade. It even gives a large percetage of profits back to the comunities that it works with; in advocacy, water and sanitation, eduactaion, healthcare programes..

There are other ways and other people out there making a difference so worth looking around…