Premier League shirts made by workers on less than £1 an hour, BBC investigation reveals
A BBC Sport investigation has traced official replica shirts for Arsenal, Liverpool, Celtic and Real Madrid to two factories in Cambodia, where workers are paid a basic wage of less than £1 an hour and describe 35C heat, daily quotas of up to 700 items, verbal abuse and electric shocks.
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Premier League shirts made by workers on less than £1 an hour, BBC investigation reveals
A BBC Sport investigation has traced official replica shirts for Arsenal, Liverpool, Celtic and Real Madrid to two factories in Cambodia, where workers are paid a basic wage of less than £1 an hour and describe 35C heat, daily quotas of up to 700 items, verbal abuse and electric shocks.
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