Revealed: true cost of the Christmas toys we buy from China’s factories

With Christmas three weeks away, an undercover investigation has revealed the bleak realities of life in Chinese toy factories serving a market worth £2.8bn a year in the UK alone. Big brands such as Disney, Lego and Marks & Spencer pay only a fraction of the shop price of products to the factories that make their toys. Last summer – as factories geared up to cope with demand for the Christmas period – investigators spent three weeks in the industrial cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/chinese-toy-factories-christmas-disney

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