Making what’s good for workers, work for business.
The BBC series Blood Sweat & Takeaways came to a close last week. For the final episode the documentary picked the 6 young Brits up in the rice-farming regions of Thailand and followed them to the bustling capital of Bangkok. This migration from the countryside is undertaken by many where the city holds potential for [...]
Yesterday’s BBC3 documentary Blood, Sweat and Takeaways plonked six young Brits onto the production line of a tuna processing factory in Indonesia, with predictable consequences. The Brits can’t cope with the living conditions, the heat, the factory environment, the tasks they are allocated – they vomit, they faint, they cry, they throw each other through [...]
Following the success of last year’s Blood Sweat and T-shirts, the reality TV programme which dropped young fashionistas in Indian garment factories, to experience the working conditions behind their clothes, BBC3 have just announced that they will be transferring the concept to the food supply chain. Starting on Tuesday 19th May 2009, Blood Sweat and [...]