Norwegian Reality Show Sends Fashion Bloggers to Work in Cambodian Sweatshop

[Ichingcarpenter]

A young blonde woman weeps openly on camera, her manicured fingers perched wanly against her cheekbones. “I can’t take it any more,” she sobs in Norwegian. “What sort of life is this?” Her name is Anniken Jørgensen, one of three 17-year-old fashion bloggers who “star” in a five-part online reality series about the horrors of sweatshop labor in Cambodia. Tapped by Aftenposten, Norway’s largest newspaper, for the social experiment, Jørgensen, along with Frida Ottesen and Ludvig Hambro, flew to the Southeast Asian country’s capital of Phnom Penh, where they experienced a modicum of a Cambodian textile worker’s life for a month in 2014.



The 5 part series is
on Youtube at the link in norwegian and english text


Now this is reality ............that america should see





http://www.ecouterre.com/reality-show-sends-fashion-bloggers-to-work-in-cambodian-sweatshop/

[libdem4life]

1. This is a Reality Show format I would support and watch...socially conscious, rather than

totally unconscious, as ours over here are.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. That was the first thing that I thought too.

I have never watched a reality show. I have no desire to watch one. But I will say that this is one that I would watch, because I think it is that important. This is something that would wake up a lot of people in this country.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. plus one

[Luminous Animal]

3. Link to the series….

http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/SWEATSHOP-ep-1---How-many-will-die-here-every-year-7800843.html?mostSeen=true

[BrotherIvan]

4. WOW

People need to watch this. We must change our buying habits and reject this kind of slavery and suffering. Consumers have the ability to change this right now.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. And miss the super bowl??

She thought they were happy""

She didn't have enough money to buy food after a day's work


It's a mind numbing wake up series

[Quantess]

6. K & R

[hunter]

8. A job that doesn't pay a living wage is a job not worth doing.

Wage slavery is a very real thing, even here in the U.S.A.

People work until they physically can't, and then they are replaced by new, desperate hungry people.

Those who can't work often die young.

Our economic system is despicable.

I had some dull repetitive jobs when I was young, working in medical labs and in manufacturing. I once spent an entire summer making thousands of little spring clips used in the latches of airline overhead bins. But I generally enjoyed 40 hour weeks and the pay was much more than starvation wages.

Yet I'm always going to be suspicious of television shows like this, as if they might be our economic masters' way of telling ordinary people, "Hey, things could be worse for you! You could be living in Cambodia..."

[Enthusiast]

9. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

This is why we don't want the fucking TPP!

[Glassunion]

10. Yeah, but prices would go up. That's unacceptable.

Duh.