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British Garment Factories Come Under New Scrutiny Due To Pandemic
Author: PBS NewsHour
Series: PBS NewsHour
Narrator: PBS NewsHour
Unabridged: 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Published: 09/07/2020
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Synopsis
The British city of Leicester has spent more than two months as the United Kingdom’s most notorious coronavirus hot spot. Its problems originally sprang from a district that houses garment factories -- where some unscrupulous owners have been accused of operating sweatshops during the pandemic. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on an industry some critics call "modern slavery."