paper was light gold in medieval times i want tobacco sugar [Music] that everything we thought we knew about the world might turn out to be completely wrong [Music] shopping for bargains has become a national obsession clothes have never been more disposable you get that kind of buzz of like oh i got a bargain but would our passion the throwaway fashion be so strong if we knew how the clothes were really made it doesn't really affect me if it's been made by a three-year-old or a 50 year old to find out six fashion fanatics have swapped shopping for india to make clothes for the british high street amongst them are ad richard mcintyre they've called them you know sweatshops and they've said it it's child labour but i'd quite like to sort of get my own opinion of it aspiring fashion designer tara scott you can know that something's going on but if you haven't seen it then it's almost like like is it real like which truth do you believe and shop assistant stacy dooley i don't give any thought india is so far away i don't really think [Music] last week our sixth brit started at the top learning to make clothes for some of the biggest names on the uk high street this business is serious business no fun but the pressure proved too much for some everything is just piling up and you just snap this is too stressful for me now the brits have been thrown in at the deep end to work in the unregulated backstreet factories this place is my idea of hell this is not the battle industry for these six brits things can only get tougher [Music] fresh yourself up and back to work i'm not just not even giving a [ __ ] about hygiene and just getting out of here as fast as possible but can they stay the course people here wash out stuff every day and they get 12 rupees for each one it just seems really really unfair i don't think it's that bad for them i mean it's horrific for us or will life at the cutting edge of the fashion business rip them apart at the seams i don't want to be here for another minute [ __ ] hole he's gone way too far [Music] this week our six brits are in west delhi it's a frenetic suburb of the indian capital with dirt track roads and countless backstreet workshops [Music] the group will be working at starcraft a company that makes cheap clothes for export to uk wholesalers their factory is tucked away down a narrow alley beside a cow shed heading up stylecraft is mr aurora yes he's had an order from a london wholesaler for 2 000 blouses and has agreed to let our brits work on part of the consignment that's what we have to make yes yes you will have to do everything from start to finish each garment it is not that you will have to stitch only one part you will have to start the garment and finish it if we make a perfect piece how much do you pay for each piece 12 rupees for one piece will vary you that's like less than 10 p normally ever teller makes about 20 pieces a day of this style i hope you'll be able to make at least six so you're talking about six garments each or six between the six of us no six pairing garments each 36 garments you'll be required to do 36 calories oh god we've got a lot of work ahead of time when can we start you can start right away the group won't be stitching the blouses here mr aurora subcontracts the sewing to workshops dotted around the area as the brits head off to their new workplace it's clear richard isn't happy with his new surroundings how [ __ ] difficult is it to stick all your rubbish in like a big tip or something they're doing me a [ __ ] favor they're just filth mongers this richard mcintyre 24 grew up on a council estate in peterborough but now runs his own advertising company he believes that just like him anyone can make a success of themselves i believe that people are in extreme poverty sort of all throughout the world that they do have an opportunity to do something about it i think richard sees things in black and white he doesn't sort of take into consideration that sometimes it's not easy to actually better yourself he came to india to get a clearer picture of the reality of the indian garment industry they've called them you know sweatshops and they've said it it's child labour but i'd quite like to sort of see it with my own eyes and decide what i believe really he started off thinking the work was easy i mean if you train a monkey to do it if i was being perfectly serious but he failed at both sewing and darling and ended up being demoted to the lowest job in the factory doing up buttons now richard's living amongst some of the poorest workers in delhi and he's not impressed oh that's just [ __ ] disgusting [Music] i thought i was going to see india all i've seen is a [ __ ] swamp that's a [ __ ] [ __ ] [Music] the workshop r6 will be working in this week is typical of the small factories in the surrounding area the tailors are here 24 7. they work 15 or more hours a day then grab sleep underneath their machines they will find a lot of hardships sometimes there is no electricity and they only save one or two bathrooms for 20 workers deadlines are very stressful basically wow [Music] this is how i imagined a sweatshop to be um just dirty smelly disgusting it's just absolutely horrible well i've got any toilet it's got no toilet roll we haven't got even a shower it's dirty and it smells really bad this place is my idea of hell georgina might think it's hell but this is the reality of how many high street clothes are made our six brits will work under the watchful eye of rahman one of the owners check the measurement chart bottom front back armholes last week the group were only sewing one part of each garment here they will have to stitch the entire blouse from scratch a far harder challenge alice is alright [Music] because it's quite a stretchy material it's really quite difficult to sew it straight you would never imagine them difficult they're so clever oh god i'm really rubbish profit margins for subcontractors like ramen can be tight as little as 40 rupees or 50 pence an item shoulders chairs yeah right yeah rahman needs to get the brits up to speed quickly if he's to make a decent profit i mean i'm not enjoying it it's not what i want to do i mean i don't find any amusement or fun in stitching some fabric together the whole sort of reason for me doing this was not because i i wanted to stitch a top together it was to learn how it's done and there's a huge difference between learning how something's done and actually wanting to do it everyone's got the amp no one wants to be here today because they're saying they're bored and [Music] stuff our brits haven't yet completed a single one of their 36 blouses they decide to take a break because we're working is not really nice at all yeah it's a bit like a sweatshop kind of thing it is it's just it's just like a room with sewing machines i think the uh the place is obviously a completed [ __ ] hole and the accommodation is not going to be what we're used to because we're in a completely different society but i don't think it's that that bad for them i mean it's [ __ ] horrific for us break over it's back to work and finally the group's efforts start to pay off [Music] it's right and after a few hours even georgina the worst sewer last week seems to be getting the hang of it i'm quite impressed with myself this is the first time i've ever made a problem it's the first time ever my mum will be impressed with me i think i'm getting along pretty well actually i'm quite enjoying this one and i've almost finished my first piece this is okay okay yes i finished one thank you very much each brit needs to produce six garments over the next three days but a typical worker produces 20 garments a day to earn a livable wage of 200 rupees or 2 pounds 50. i've done five now with the team pleased with their progress tara goes to see mr aurora to show him some of the 15 blouses that they've stitched so far tara 21 wants to be a fashion designer just like her mum my mum designs a concession range at top shop um called tyler starlet which named after me which is really girly lovely pretty dresses she thinks that working in the indian garment industry will give her a head start in her career i really look forward to learning more skills because when i leave university that's what i want to go into full-time business with my mom i expected to come back as a really experienced machinist and then she could come and work like mad for me last week she would have made her mum proud despite finding it tough at the start this is too stressful for me she ended up being so good she was even offered a job i am very happy with your hard work also and i am very happy with your positive thinking thank you these are my bundles now it's time to find out if she can impress mr aurora and his daughter smarty yes the seam is ripping seam is ripping here there's no seam this is richards in richard's piece the back is medium and the front is of small size he's mixed two components of two different sizes and one sleeve is medium one size one side sleeve is small that means there's going to be another one somewhere isn't there yeah the rest of the team don't fare any better the garment is not correct it is twisting here it is twisting here it is twisting here you want her to unpick it and start again this one is completely gone it is attached completely wrong completely wrong she has to redo it she has to do this garment is actually spoiled rejected every single garment has been rejected i don't mind giving you more time but bring the correct pieces all right then thank you the garments may be cheap to produce but they have to be top quality to make it onto the uk high street the quality isn't quite good enough the ones that i've still got here need to be corrected so i don't know i'm hoping that people won't be disheartened by that news and i hope that they take um they take it all right and that the pieces that are waiting now are of a better standard because otherwise we're gonna have to redo everything which is not gonna be fun of course they have done it very badly but you didn't expect it this fabric is not an easy family to handle and now i have explained to her what is wrong i hope she should be able to get it done tara arrives back at the factory to relay the bad news to the group hi guys so how many have we done so far we haven't got any that are actually passable um how many did you take over there took over five and i've come back with three which all need to be altered so um having heard they haven't completed a single blouse boss rahman is back to make sure that they pick up the pace guys what's going on you need to finish all the garments so you carry on yeah okay if you want to work you can work whole night yeah or if you want to get rest you can sleep okay okay boys will sleep here with my boys with my workers and girls will sleep inside the room okay the boys will just sleep on its desk yes no not on desks where do we sleep she's on the floor oh yeah oh the indian workers sleep on this floor every night but richard doesn't fancy spending even one year rather than actually have an early night now sleep with the rats and the ants and the stench i prefer just working right through the night just getting it done and then just getting out of it with the plan set to sew through the night the brits head off to find dinner everyone including richard knew that coming to india would involve living as an indian worker but after their total failure today the prospect of spending any more time in the factory seems to have become too much for him this just isn't me at all it's not me i don't want to do this i really don't want to do it i just shouldn't be it was just completely not me because it just infuriates me what we're here for is to learn about how our prayers made and i think that they could have done it i'm not here i don't give a [ __ ] how my clothes are made it doesn't take a genius to work out that actually someone sews it somewhere actually all they've done is show me a poor [ __ ] people that haven't got an intellect to spell their own names let alone hold a conversation with me i'm not going to come over here and just because they're indian and i live in a western world and people are going to say oh you're just rich and you've got this and you've got all these advantages [ __ ] off richard's offensive comments leave his co-workers speechless but provokes one of the locals to speak out i'm sorry but you should not speak something negative to our country well i wasn't speaking about your country pardon me i wasn't talking about your country i was talking about individuals regardless no it's not my perception that is what we were talking about you've heard half of half i'm not a racist person i wasn't not liking them because they're a different coloured skin to me or because they're a different nationality i was not liking them because i've made a judgment on their personality and i don't [ __ ] like the people i've met if something related to my own person my own country i would definitely definitely okay well that's fine but was i talking about you no was i referring to your country no so go away why why you should also go away i mean i am not saying that you're talking something negative to my country i was simply saying that i've met some people just the same as you're entitled to meet me and go away later on and say i think he was a [ __ ] but you're not allowed to turn around and say i think he was a dicker because he's white and because he's english okay my own personal feelings that's the reason i have interrupted that's fine i understand but you can't feel anything bad about it okay that's perfectly fine okay [Music] what am i doing richard's sudden tirade has left everyone shell-shocked i'm just exhausted now from that that's just really scary i just i've never seen richard react like that ever and i was a bit frightened really when one person is talking abusive language with our nation with our government with our people with our culture i felt very bad about it maybe you felt bad about certain people in india but everybody's not like that [Music] the brits had hoped the meal tonight would be a chance for them to regroup but instead it's thrown them completely off course as they make their way back to the factory richard decides life at the cutting edge of the fashion business has become too much i don't want to be here for another minute it's [ __ ] [ __ ] hole it's making me feel it's been physically sick because of the [ __ ] stench richard's only been in india for 10 days but it seems his adventure may be over [Music] [Music] it's been a catastrophe it's been an absolute horror show i think that when we all sort of started this everyone was sort of you know just really excited because everyone's sort of you know really excited about doing this you know nobody's worn off with 10 days in now the novelty has worn off and it's all just spilled over i think he's gone way too far richard has had a really difficult couple of days i think we're all going to come across really difficult challenges and i think this is richard's challenge now later richard reflects on his negative view of the indian workers he's met i tend to sort of wear my heart on my sleeve in a sense i'm a very honest person and if i don't think something's right i i'll just tell you that and i think that it's uh it's not done me any favors it's clear to me now that i have very different viewpoints to uh to to other people with regards to this you know when i see people in in poverty that the first thing that that happens is it doesn't break my heart i don't instantly feel sympathy for them i don't want to drag them out of it i question why they're in poverty and could they have done something about it themselves people may say that that's a harsh view a harsh view on stuff but it's just just how i am every day that i'm here it's just it's just getting on top of me more and more exhausted emotionally drained and little closer to their goal of 36 completed blouses than when they started the group bed down amongst the workers for their first night on a factory floor [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's 8 a.m the next morning and workshop co-owner predominant arrives to wake everyone up good morning it's time to get back to work 30 minutes shop it's freezing it's just the starting of winters wait till it gets two degrees we can't have a wash because of um there's no sink and there's no tack and there's no shower so my plan is just to get changed to use the baby wipes i'm actually just not even giving a [ __ ] about hygiene for a few hours and just getting out of here as fast as possible you have to do your shoes up when you go to the bathroom because the way splashes on your face i'd prefer to be somewhere where they had a shower and a nice bed because i hate camping and to me this is camping complaining about it's not gonna do anything is it i might as well just embrace it and just get on with it and just do it but it just can't be asked there's only two days left and the team will have to work relentlessly if they are to hit their target of 36 blouses but with last night's events hanging over them no one is in the mood for sewing it just really really kicked off last night big time and richard was so angry which just says whatever he thinks you know just have a bit of respect and stuff because i think if i was in england if i was in nando's and someone was like someone indian or not english was like i hate this country it's disgusting really shouting in a restaurant i'd probably i'd probably be a bit like what are you doing here then go go home [Music] last night richard was determined to quit but in the cold light of day he's having second thoughts i don't really know what's best to be honest i just uh kind of feels like a bad dream but i want to just wake up from it but i know that it's not really like that so i'm not sure if by sort of just going home whether i'm just being quite naive by thinking okay i can just go home and everything will just go away otherwise i know it won't you know i'm sort of a part of this experience now and i'm not sure that i can just walk away from it i'm not sure that that's the right thing to do confused about his future he decides to consult the rest of the group obviously you know yesterday i was sort of said that i was probably going to leave i thought it'd be a good idea before uh before i go or you know if i do decide to go in the end if we just sort of had a pretty open sort of discussion i know sometimes the way i express my views and stuff i'm quite a passionate person in sort of everything that i do and in the way that i articulate that to you know sometimes not necessarily the best sort of way but have i sort of offended anybody with you know in my mannerisms when i've been expressing things or in anything that i've said so i've been offended on a couple of occasions i just get offended when people are like aggressive or if there's just like unnecessary aggro like it kind of upsets me it makes me uneasy and uncomfortable like sometimes you know you think really like you react and you know you have this whole like sort of rant and we all can run and we have our opinion but sometimes i'm frightened that you're gonna say something that might tarnish you as a person okay but if that's my view wouldn't you want me to express it of course i want you to express it but kind of like calm down before you kind of like go off into a bit where you say something that you might regret you you were frustrated i get like that sometimes you get bent up and it's almost like where's your release going to come from we're away from we're back home at the moment it's like certain things as you're saying like going to the gym playing football it's a release for us you know vent up anger you know you get kind of stressed out in work and stuff like that you use your social time to release your your stresses but we don't do that here there's no nothing for us to do i think you i think you realize deep down what bit was probably wrong with it or whatever but you only learn from your mistakes yeah i think that if we can just snap you out of being a bit negative and start being a bit positive i think that it's gonna completely i think we just completely turn around and have a really good time i think that's what i'm thinking more now after sort of even just chatting to you guys now and think that i'm changing my mind somewhat in a sense that if i just went home now i've only seen you know this much and i think that actually i kind of over to to myself see a different side of it with richard deciding to stay it's back to business as usual in the workshop with 36 blouses to complete by tomorrow everyone needs to put the events of last night behind them the group makes steady progress but things are going slowly suddenly to add to their frustration the entire electrical supply packs up [Music] work in the factory grinds to a halt [Music] the power's gone so the sound machines aren't working because it's got no power we've got to 36 tops everyone's got the arm it's not it's not good and to make matters worse for the brits mr aurora's daughter has arrived for a spot check [Music] tara can i have a bird with you yes yesterday she rejected every single blouse they'd stitched she's keen to see if the blouses they've sewn since are an improvement i think this one's marked because it's got this mine it's got the binding in it things start off surprisingly well who's done the binding you've done the binding on the shoulder that was a very good effort i have to say thank you very much actually excellent effort i would say airplus mark might have got an a plus but not everyone's work is up to the high standards demanded by her clients in the uk okay hear it this has a little problem this binding is stretched out his edges are coming up this should not be happening and some of the sewing is even worse than yesterday both arms both leaves have to sit exactly identically this garment has a problem with the armhole the sleeves are getting puffy here the armor has actually gotten stretched it is getting puffy all the way did you know that puffy arms are actually in at the moment your puffy arms are not in from here you stretch this leave a little yeah redo it all right mark you've done a major problem you've attached the wrong side of the garment okay now i understand that people have completed seven garments among yourself so that's another 29 to go and i want to see good quality garments from your people so a few people back to work it's been another frustrating inspection for the group mr aurora's daughter has just discarded over half their new blouses we've just had so many rejected that that whole part there stuff rejected which is probably about 20 different things just a bit frustrating there's actually a lot of work to be done till now there's not much progress only seven finished comments by the end of the mid afternoon is not much work done they actually have a lot of work to do to finish everything and they have to get going fast if they want to leave they have to get going fast trapped in a vicious cycle of sowing and rejection it's time to fire up the emergency generator and get back to the machines the brits have got 29 blouses still to stitch and just 24 hours to do it in [Music] with a little extra help from their fellow workers the brits finally start to get the hang of it and the number of completed blouses steadily increases [Music] and now it's completely perfect this one's almost finished mark's one's almost finished you'll see this one's almost finished so that'll give us 24 so 12 more [Music] the group continues to work long into the night finishing another five garments and with their total now at 29 mark tara and stacy decide to call it a night [Music] while georgina joins taylor sanjay for dinner i am just about to eat hot hot no kidney i've just eaten heart this is your kidney this guy just told me it's cat but i've been assured that it's chicken so here we go okay okay okay i'm gonna close my eyes in it it's good i am like i'm a celebrity get me out of here yeah where they eat like woolies and stuff okay this is where these guys sleep every night um this is what you normally eat yeah yes this is what they normally eat every night um it tastes good yes many of the workers in this factory are migrants who have traveled thousands of miles from the poor and northern regions of the country they send almost all the money they earn back to their struggling families this is your business isn't it oh this is my business yes so if you're keen to discover more georgina sits down with pradhuman the english-speaking factory co-owner obviously your workers they sleep on the floors here um do you know sometimes i feel bad for them for sleeping on the floor oh yes i do agree with you but you see in case they wish to spend more on their luxuries they are most welcome is their money how they spend it but the back home the needs are more yeah that's why they prefer not spending on their luxuries they prefer sending it back home because they all have families to be to be supported and do they get paid for each garment i mean they produce they get paid how much they get for each garment uh each garment has a rate attached to it it's different for different garments a different per piece if it's a simple piece it could go up to like 10 rupees per piece so um obviously the workers if they're getting 10 rupees per item and that works out you know ap english money see the thing i'm struggling with the most is the fact that obviously these things that are being made obviously you know the workers are getting paid like eight pence for them and say if we take like i don't know a normal garment like this if i wanted to go buy this in a shop then it would probably cost me about 10 pounds so that's the bit that i'm sort of struggling with the fact that them obviously as as you know the uk we're paying people like yourselves to get their workers to make it for us and then obviously we're paying you lot stupid amounts to do it i just think that it could be done you know so much better it's just oh it just really infuriates me richard too has been struggling to understand why the workers accept their situation he decides to quiz 45 year old taylor ali on his circumstances do you feel you have an opportunity to to get an education if you want one to uh to study outside of work he says yes um i could go to school right now but i can't afford it i'm um i'd rather pay for my kids education so that they can have a better life so you you can't there is the opportunity but you can't afford to to do it how much does it cost for uh to how much does it cost for it to send yourself to school sort of in the evenings or outside of work [Music] i would prefer to earn money and work longer hours and make sure my kids get a better education and get um can go further in life yes my life is pretty much over now i don't understand i i don't understand um there is night school you don't know how much it costs you've got a job to try and provide for your kids but you've already said that having an education would give you a better life i i don't unders i i don't understand why he's not why he's not tried why have you never even looked into going to night school you could do it outside of work you could study study outside of work you know it might be affordable and you might be able to give your children an even better life he works from 9 in the morning to 10 sometimes 12 at night and after that he wants to go home spend some time with his children um and you know the money earns in the day sometimes they're ill he needs to take them to the doctor um so to ensure you know he spends time with them and they have their life he hasn't looked into night school it's honestly i think he is very commendable he's effectively sacrificing his life for the benefit of his children i mean it may be as made me feel perhaps a little bit less harsh i mean perhaps the opportunities don't exist or the opportunities are extremely difficult to come by it's not a case of just sort of hard work but the opportunity it's extremely difficult for these people to get an education because ultimately that's what they need what he said to it to improve their life i understand now that it is more difficult it's been a roller coaster of a day for our brits but tomorrow mr aurora is expecting 36 export quality blouses as things stand he may be very disappointed [Music] it's the group's third day of workshop life and with the deadline for their consignment just four hours away praduman is back to make sure everyone is awake and ready for work good morning it's time to work i know bread come on please [Music] still sleeping no no i'm getting up now please remember it's 12 o'clock is your deadline you still have a lot of work to do serious one as well is that clear lauren clear i can hear it it may be pay day today but for some morale is at an all-time low oh i need a toilet again if i meant to be a third night i'm gonna have my credit cards back and i'm booking myself into a hotel [Music] i'll stay on any longer like why am i working for only 60 pence sod that even less than that it's ridiculous i've got no energy like i don't i do want to go somewhere else i'm fed up but i've just i can't be asked anymore my heart has just completely gone out of it especially because every single one i've done has been rejected and it's just been crap so i can't be asked some of the indian workers are less than impressed with the brit's attitude it's a quarter to nine before the brits finally emerge and realize that the quicker they work the quicker they can but i'm lead inside for the millionth time working until five how i hate this job if we all make one perfect then everything's okay so we just have to do one last one and then we can get out of here but with tara enforcing strict quality control achieving their quota is far from easy two of these have been rejected so far [Music] two of them are no good this all needs to be unpicked so that whole right side is done again basically i'd chop this one in the bin to be honest in total over the last two days i reckon we've made easily like about 50 but it's just so many of them get rejected it's almost like impossible and tara isn't the only one finding it hard today [Music] i am really really enjoying it it's just so different and i think i didn't i didn't really probably realize that would be so different [Music] twenty-year-old stacy is a high street shopping fanatic i love love love love fashion i just really enjoy all different types of trends and i just love hanging out at the shops and buying the world stacey could go out at eight o'clock in the morning and still be shopping at eight o'clock at night this one i love it i think it looks really indian-y she came to india knowing it would be tough i think i'll be shocked the way people have to work i don't think it's gonna be very glamorous at all i think we're all gonna look like dirt bags sweating our pants off in the sweatshops but i'd like mine's hard work [Music] and despite struggling on the production line last week are you ready for the worst pocket you've ever seen in your life she refused to quit i don't want to say but i know i have to because they've been teaching me the past three days of their time so i just got to try and do a bit more this week with the pressure on she's found a novel way of ensuring that her work is up to scratch my sleeves you attach no come on funny i'm slow tired please remember you said your wife wanted a mascara yes your wife skyler yeah she can have mine if you do this today come on bunty she'll love you forever all right excellent thank you definitely not cheating absolutely not cheating because i've done every other blouse myself they've just helped me but this one i'm only asking because it's got to be perfect else we'll fail because we've only got 45 minutes left so if i do this wrong then someone's gonna have to alter it i don't think it's cheating do you with their 12 o'clock deadline looming and their target of 36 plows is in sight the brits pulled together for one final effort [Music] number one [Music] yeah we're on 33 i've just got to overlook marx and stacy's that's 35 and then ridge just needs to do that last stitch and then i have to block that and then we're done [Music] having hit their target it's a quick march across town to see their boss mr aurora he'll decide whether the blouses are good enough for him to export and how much the group will be paid but if he thinks there are too few blouses of high street quality he could send them back to start again the thing is i don't want to be in there another night i'm starting to feel really really like disgusting and itchy that is terrible i don't think it's you know what no one's feeling good we obviously can't fully immerse ourselves with the workers because we're so used to a different lifestyle you know this is what they've always known whereas we're not used to that we're getting an insight but that doesn't mean we want to get sick as well [Music] hello how are you yeah i'm feeling everybody is feeling asleep yeah we're very tired yesterday and i don't stay everybody enjoyed doing it it was a bit of a hard work yeah at least you know now that uh how much hard work is involved when we make a garment if i forgot it or you don't i definitely don't this is the pile of the pieces you have done correctly and this is the pile of the pieces you have done wrong we gave you a target of 36 pieces total you have to give us correct while you have given us only 15 correct pieces and into 12 rupees per piece you have 180 rupees 190 180 rupees total for six percent it means it is 30 rupees only per person oh my god 30 rupees each two little bits each that's 20 no it is 40 feet yes you know how much uh 40 pay what that can get us in england a packet of christmas used to be a chocolate bar but now even chocolate bars have gone up how many do you do your workers normally make they would have made something like 400 rupees per person which is how much 400 rupees five months that was ridiculous how many would they have [Music] the way you think about it we've done 15 between us the guys that would have been working when they're done 20 each a day the only thing it looks bad on us is because obviously we're done 15 over two days between six of us but we're not professionals exactly we're not it's because you've not said you have done a bad job but still you have done very little which this is 180 rupees okay spend it like as it is very hard earned money thank you thank you very much thank you please guys thank you don't really call it a living wage i would more rather call it um a survival wage because of they don't live with that like they don't go out for dinner and they don't go out shopping and they don't live with that they just survive with that so it makes them not die that wage my heart goes out to them it really does it really just makes me feel so selfish and because they're doing it for their families i mean most of them are just sending the money back to put their children through education to put food on the table i mean they've basically cut off their own lives to give lives to someone else i just think that's amazing well my mum is a seamstress she makes clothes she has done since she was younger than me and um i know like when she makes something i'm like wow like she made me the most amazing dress for my birthday and it's like people here boss out stuff every day that's just as well made as that and they get 12 rupees for each one it just seems really really unfair like being really cheated [Music] so far this group of brits have spent two weeks working in the indian garment industry experiencing the reality behind how their clothes are made this is too stressful for me this place is my idea of hell but the story of throwaway fashion goes way beyond what they've seen so far feeding the factories with the raw materials they need are thousands of cotton labourers who work under tougher conditions for even less pay if the brits thought life in delhi was shocking nothing will prepare them for what's coming up next don't shout at me please don't shout in my face [Music] but before the group sets off on the next stage of their journey they get to enjoy a few home comforts and spend a night in a hotel having slept on a factory floor for two nights it's a welcome relief [Music] i'm so happy i nearly cried when we found out we were coming here good i like this room because i get to have a shower i just sleep in a proper bed and i get to watch telly as well oh you wouldn't believe how much i'm just so grateful of chairs and a toilet and a sink and a tap it's great it's just marvelous i'm really made up i'm gonna have a shower and then i'm gonna go have something to eat and i'm gonna have another shower and i'm gonna have another shower and i'm gonna have another shower and some ice cream and then i'll probably go to bed this is just heaven compared to sleeping on the factory floor the brits might be glad to be back in the land of showers and duvets but they haven't forgotten the workers they've left behind for whom tonight will be just another evening on a factory floor kind of hit home today how kind of miserable their existence is but i just feel so happy to be here hotel is so nice how do i do a room service it's just weird this is only a short drive like well half an hour from where we've been and we've been staying in like squalor just complete filth and now we're just in like a lovely building with food and water they were in the same clothes every day it's quite sad in that sense because they're going to sleep in the same clothes that they've worn the day before and waking up and they're just starting work again i don't think it's right for people to live like that i think he knows everyone's right to have a shower and have a proper bathroom um and clean facilities and um you know a proper bed but unfortunately they don't have it but they don't know anything better so what can you do it's 6 am and the 6 brits are leaving delhi to continue on their journey to find out how their clothes are made [Music] the group are traveling to haryana an agricultural state 300 miles west of delhi to work as cotton pickers and just like the thousands of migrant workers who flock to the harvest each season they're traveling third class aboard a packed indian train this is just my idea of how the smell is just unbearable what was that oh my god this is the most horrific experience yeah it's really not nice [Music] a few hours into the journey stacey decides to brave the toilet [Music] oh lord but the toilets aren't the only thing upsetting her none of the cotton pickers aboard this train have ever ventured outside india and the site of six brits in their carriage is causing a stir it's just completely and utterly unnecessary well i don't understand fortunately a rare english-speaking passenger is able to explain the local's curiosity i think it's the first time in life whenever i saw any foreigner in the strain so they haven't seen any white people why why are you more educated than the other people so your family had money i need to give you an education much money but i'm working with a australian company that paid google selling why can't they get an education is there not the opportunity i know they don't have a lot of money they don't have good money for the education there are a lot of population in our country and income is very low so not every family can afford a education they can't even uh have a proper food of people in india angry at their government and they are uh angry but they have no option but they can do can the people not help themselves is there no way for the poor people to to help themselves they can't they can't [Music] it's coming across more and more now that the more people i'm speaking to that maybe i was wrong initially i mean i thought that these people actually had a choice to uh you know to get themselves out of poverty but kind of appears that actually they don't their choice is as limited to you know work a day get some food and leave for the next or just don't work the day and die um i don't think that's a choice that anybody should have to be facing because you have to be faced with seven hours later the brits reached the end of the line few europeans have ever ventured this far into haryana it's a bit like a ghost town or something like from the wild west or something but the cotton plantations are still 22 miles away so alongside the other migrant workers they board a local bus this is quite possibly the worst bus journey i've ever experienced in my life it's kind of like sitting in one spot being hit on the head for pan repeatedly if they thought life in delhi was tough the idea of making their clothes in rural india is filling them with dread look outside look outside [ __ ] i just think it's gonna be horrible you're gonna make us sleep in a mud hot i know it [Music] coming up next time [Music] the six brits move into the cotton belt i've worked about an hour probably picking out for about seven and a half page it makes me itch and sneeze and gives me a headache to take on the most physically challenging job in the fashion business this job is the most hard work that i've ever done in my life they'll have to survive on their own oh my god there's no way am i staying here and live off the workers wages excuse me you've just ripped me off can we pay you 30 now no and then 20 in the morning many money but when things start to come apart at the seams [Music] i've never met any boys that that immature gets great r6 discover that life at the cutting edge of high street fashion costs more than they could ever imagine [Music] [Music] you