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  Sunday  March 2  2003    01: 00 AM

sweatshops in amerika

Misery of rag-trade slaves in America's Pacific outpost
Workers in Samoan sweatshop beaten and starved

When Thanh Nguyen was offered the chance to quit her poorly paid factory job in Vietnam and work in one of America's Pacific territories, she saw it as an easy way to a good income. Instead she found herself in a brutal sweatshop where workers were beaten and starved while they made designer clothes for the US retail giants Sears and JC Penney
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