Child labour in Vietnam

At a clothing business in HCM City, most child workers have to work 14 hours per day in small, hot, gloomy rooms. Employers openly admit they don’t have work contracts and have to work the whole week.
They explain away their use of child workers by various means, saying it is difficult to hire adult workers or more honestly that they employ children to cut labour costs.
Hoang Van Hanh, who runs a clothing business in Ward 13, Tan Binh district, HCM City, which uses many child workers, said: “We have run this business for eight years. We only earn enough to live on so we don’t have a business licence. Nobody comes here for labour inspections and nobody tells me about how many working hours are set for workers at what age. We work until 12pm here, no problem.”
Read the complete article here:
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/200911/HCM-City-Child-labour-tales-from-clothing-industry-878755/

Child labour in England

"...Many manufacturers employ upwards of 3,000 of these lace-makers, who are chiefly children and young persons of the female sex exclusively... From their fifth year and often earlier, until their tweflth or fifteenth year... during the first year the very young ones work from four to eight hours, and later on, from six in the morning till eight or ten o'clock at night...

'It is not at all uncommon in Nottingham to find 14 to 20 children huddled together in a small room, of, perhaps, not more than 12 feet square, and employed for 15 hours out of the 24, at work that is itself exhausting, from its weariness and monotony, and is besides carried out under every possible unwholesome condition... Even the very youngest children work with a strained attention and a rapidity that is astonishing, hardly ever giving their fingers rest or slowing their motion.'" --Capital, Karl Marx.

From: China Labour Bulletin

A report issued by Human Rights in China (http://www.hrichina.org) in March of this year documented the tragic case of five adolescent girls who appeared to have been poisoned by carbon monoxide smoke from a coal brazier lit in the confines of their cramped factory sleeping quarters. In an attempt to hide culpability for the girl's deaths, the panicked factory manager ordered that the bodies be disposed of immediately; later investigation revealed that two of the girls had likely been buried alive.

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/15889

Top Ten things I Like About the Rennaisance Faire

1.People shout, "Huzzah!" when you tip them.
2. Mead.
3. Thinking about the people who work there on their night off at a local bar.
4. Corsets.
5. Little kids have an excuse to run around with sharp wooden swords and no one looks at you like, "I hate you and your fucking rugrats and I hope you all die."
6. Fake English accents. A fake English accent is like the old school version of speaking Klingon, like a Supernerd secret handshake.
7. Genre confusion. Are you a Medieval Goth Faerie? Or a Satanist Elf Prostitute?
8. Guys are allowed to get completely freaky with their facial hair and they don't even live in Bushwick.
9. No one is texting!
10. The 300-pound chick who sitting there all day stamping Celtic patterns into leather armbands with a hammer and die.