How bad are Chinese sweatshops? In fast fashion, a factory's employees must be swiftly produced, making them sickly and at risk. Worker dormitories are overcrowded and they lack childcare facilities.

Chinese workers often spend upward of 12 hours a day, six days a week at their place of employment, so it's unclear exactly how much of their time could be spend pursuing leisure activities.

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 17 - Designer bag maker Alviero Martini on Wednesday denied using Chinese sweatshop labour after being put into receivership in a probe into allegedly illegal business practices.

Profits were allegedly maximised by using Chinese sweatshops and resorting to illegal and clandestine labour', said the receivership order. An investigation has ascertained "a connection between ...