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Slave labor: made in the U.S.A.: under the influence of disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay became an apologist for slave labor camps--on American soil.(CORRUPTION)(Cover Story)
Deep in a humid tropical island jungle, in poorly ventilated buildings ringed with barbed wire and patrolled by armed guards, impoverished Asian women--most of them Chinese--toil for 80 hours a week making brand-name apparel for export to the United States.
The female garment workers were lured to the labor camps, which are run by members of the Chinese Communist Party, with promises of wages extravagant by their standards, up to 60 percent of what their counterparts in the U.S. earn. But before they were hired, the women had to sign "shadow contracts" that effectively made them slaves to the company. Their activities are strictly regimented, and since they ...
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