Meet The People Who Make Your Clothes
Author Kelsey Timmerman just completed a book about the lives of garment workers around the world. In his research stages, he traveled the globe interviewing people who sew and assemble clothing at the factories of major international brands. Guest blogging on Neatorama, he introduces an assortment of people whom he met in his travels.
Nari (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) works at a factory that makes blue jeans. She shares an 8’ X 12’ apartment with seven other girls. Four of the girls sleep on a bamboo bed and the other four sleep on the concrete floor. It’s a job that she had to pay a $50 bribe – a month’s wage – to get. Fifty dollars is probably enough for one person in Cambodia to live on, but Nari, like many of the garment workers in Cambodia, supports her family of six. She is attending beauty school and hopes to open her own salon someday. She doesn’t like bowling.
