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    Child workers as young as 10 years old were found working in appalling conditions in a textile factory in Delhi, India producing clothes for a major UK retailer. The children described long hours of unpaid work and physical abuse. The company said it was unaware its clothes were improperly outsourced to a sweatshop using child labor, and has withdrawn the products until investigating alleged breaches of its ethical code for manufacturers. The discovery has renewed concerns about large retailers outsourcing garment production to India, where over 20% of the economy depends on child labor according to estimates. Western consumers should consider how cheap prices may be supporting child suffering.

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    Child workers as young as 10 years old were found working in appalling conditions in a textile factory in Delhi, India producing clothes for a major UK retailer. The children described long hours of unpaid work and physical abuse. The company said it was unaware its clothes were improperly outsourced to a sweatshop using child labor, and has withdrawn the products until investigating alleged breaches of its ethical code for manufacturers. The discovery has renewed concerns about large retailers outsourcing garment production to India, where over 20% of the economy depends on child labor according to estimates. Western consumers should consider how cheap prices may be supporting child suffering.

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    Child workers as young as 10 years old were found working in appalling conditions in a textile factory in Delhi, India producing clothes for a major UK retailer. The children described long hours of unpaid work and physical abuse. The company said it was unaware its clothes were improperly outsourced to a sweatshop using child labor, and has withdrawn the products until investigating alleged breaches of its ethical code for manufacturers. The discovery has renewed concerns about large retailers outsourcing garment production to India, where over 20% of the economy depends on child labor according to estimates. Western consumers should consider how cheap prices may be supporting child suffering.

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    Child Labour

    Instructions: Read through the text and choose the correct word to fill in each
    blank space.
    Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile 1) __________ in
    conditions described as close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for one the
    major high street 2) __________.
    Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of 3) __________ work
    and threats and beatings. The company said it was unaware that clothing intended for its 4)
    __________ had been improperly 5) __________ to a 6) __________ that used child
    labour. It further announced it had withdrawn the garments involved until it had investigated
    the alleged 7) __________ of the 8) __________ code it imposed on manufacturers three
    years ago.
    The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi
    has renewed concerns about the 9) __________ by some large retail chains of their 10)
    __________ production to India, recognised by the United Nations as one of the worlds's
    hotspots for child labour. According 11) __________ one 12) __________, over 20 per cent
    of India's economy is 13) __________ on children, which comes to a total of 55 million
    youngsters under 14 working.
    14) __________ in the West should not only be demanding answers from retailers about how
    their 15) __________ are produced but also should be looking into their consciences at how
    they spend their money and whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to
    so many children.

    Questions
    Q1 – facility / factory / office / bureau
    Q2 – warehouse / retailer / warehouses / retailers
    Q3 – inpaid / unpaid / without pay / without payment
    Q4 – warehouses / stores / outlet / branch
    Q5 – outsource / outsourcing / outsources / outsourced
    Q6 – association / sweatshop / closed shop / retailer
    Q7 – breaches / errors / mistakes / wrongdoings
    Q8 – ethic / ethnic / ethical / ethnical
    Q9 – outsource / outsourcing / outsources / outsourced
    Q10 – garment / raiment / garments / raiments
    Q11 – by / to / of / from
    Q12 – estimate / estimating / estimates / estimated
    Q13 – depends / dependent / dependant / dependence
    Q14 – Consume / Consumption / Consumer / Consumers
    Q15 – stuff / ware / goods / garment

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