British tabloid The Sunday Mirror accusation:
" The Italian brands exploiting Chinese workers in Prato "
Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Prada, some of the symbols of Italian fashion, ended today in the crosshairs of the tabloid Sunday Sunday Mirror UK because their leaders - is the charge of the newspaper - would be made in part by Chinese immigrants in Italy paid € 3 an hour.
The expensive clothes, shoes and accessories of the three fashion houses, according to the Sunday Mirror, are in fact at least partially produced in Prato by an army of low-paid Chinese workers, and often even illegal.
For over twenty years, thousands of Chinese immigrants arriving in the Tuscan town - population 180 thousand and 4 thousand companies of clothes - in search of work and money. But if one quarter of the textile industry in Prato is now in Chinese hands, compared to 2 thousand 25 thousand entrepreneurs are well-paid workers. One in five - always the Sunday Mirror says the piece - not even the documents.
"Yes, many of us are here illegally, but we've come to have a better life, what's wrong with that? And we work hard, "said Lee" Alessia "Hu, who arrived in Prato with his family 10 years ago from the Fujian province of China and taken to Gucci as an accountant when she was a teenager. "The Italians know this, but not ashamed to pay us almost nothing. The minimum wage of an Italian five euro per hour, we receive only three. When I protested, they fired me. " The 22 year old now works as stapler in one of hundreds of Chinese-owned companies that receive work from the big fashion houses, and to maximize profits even exploiting illegal workers.
to direct one of these companies is Monica Ye, 35 year-old cousin of Lee and her husband Fabio, who is also Chinese but, as in the case of two women, re-christened with an Italian name to be integrated more easily. "I send my workers to the material and sew, glue and finish the bags," said Fabio, a subcontractor for Dolce & Gabbana. "I pay my 100 employees € 3 per hour but they are happy. They live in a dormitory on the company and sees to their meals. D & G sells the bags up to 1,500 euro each.
A worker of the company, arrived in Italy last year by the Zhejiang province with a student visa, however, describes the situation very differently. "Life is hard. My fingers are stuck in one of the sewing machine six months ago, "said showing two fingers missing from his right hand. "The boss was furious, he had to pay 35 € for me to see a doctor. The pain is still terrible. The boss says I have to work day and night to pay it back, but what choice do I have? At least I have food and shelter. In China, I had nothing. "
But at this point a question arises: how can you call Made in Italy under-production of underpaid workers and most non-EU without the costs of relocation to a foreign country?
Simply import the cheap labor and you're done.
vantiamoci So not too much of the fashion industry in which "regnamo 'with a consecration to' Altar of Peace for the designers, in a sort of Olympic world, the" altars "and then come out with all outline of the "fall of style."
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