Recherchetool für Materialien Caught in the cotton chain Falling or burning textile factories in Bangladesh, Pakistan and elsewhere have already killed thousands of people. But the problems with value creation in the textile industry do not only start where the last hands are put on a T-shirt or trousers. Lowest wages, exploitation, danger to body and soul – all this already affects the agricultural workers in the cotton fields. Later the employees in the gutters, spinning mills, dyeing mills and weaving mills. In India alone, 35 million people, including 60 percent women, work in the textile industry, almost as many people as in Germany as a whole. We travelled to the motherland of cotton to find out who actually does what work under what conditions. But the people who worked on this T-shirt from the cotton field to the sewing machine can hardly live off this work, again and again employees pay the work in this cotton chain with death. A trip to India for cotton and its processing Scope: 24 minutesReference: Available free of charge by ver.di and for demonstrations in the field of education and for non-commercial purposes, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. back
