Jeyasre Kathiravel had always dreamed of a life beyond the garment factories of Dindigul, a remote corner of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Despite the meagre wages she was earning – about £80 a month – Kathiravel knew she was lucky to have a job at Natchi Apparels, a local factory making clothes
Garment staff creating clothing for global brand names in Karnataka, a important apparel generation hub in India, say their kids are heading hungry as factories refuse to shell out the authorized least wage in what is claimed to be the largest wage theft to at any time hit the trend field. Much more than 400,000