INTERVIEW WITH A FACTORY WORKER: What's your name? My name is Shophie. How old are you? I’m 8 years. Could you tell us about your family? My family is formed by my parents, my older sister and I. I am the small of three brothers Tell us, where do you work? Which are your tasks? I work in a textile industry, my whole family is working there, but my sister and I clean and repair the machines and other special jobs. Are you happy with this job? No, I don’t like it anyway, but you can’t complain because they throw you out and my family needs the money, but I'm afraid to go too to the factory because there are people sick and very dusty, in very bad hygienic conditions, many children have died, The schedules are impossible and sometimes the boss hits the children. There are lots of job drops because we don’t have any security. Most of the people, including me hearing problems because of machine’s noise. And some of my mother’s partners have had pneumonia. What is your home like?
My house is not only for my family, with us also lives another family, this one works in the iron factory. Each family has a bed but, the house is cold. We don’t have sewage system either. You mentioned before that you were three brothers, but you only told us about your sister, what about your other brother or sister?
Yes, 2 years ago, I had an older brother but one day he had to enter in a very dangerous machine that was not monitored, and he couldn’t survive. What things do you think that the factory where you work should improve? Well, I think we need a better schedule, better salaries, a representative, and labour rights.