Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy

Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by wenc on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:01AM (#16858347)

There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry.

If you visit Milan's Chinatown, it is full of textile and clothing shops as opposed to most Chinatowns around the world which are dominated by food and grocery stores.

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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by lormayna on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:26AM (#16858598)

I'm from Prato. The Chineses do not produce fabrics in Prato, they just sewing clothes.

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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by lvoudour on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:22AM (#16858548)

>There's a town near Florence called Prato that has a large population of Wenzhou Chinese. Most work in the textile industry.

That's exactly what the article is about :)

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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by tyu100 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:47AM (#16858811)

This was one of the best didn't read the articles I've seen in a while.

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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by LoSboccacc on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:45PM (#16859993)

Prato is one of the most talked about because of the high contrast between irregular workers (wether legally resident or otherwise) working for the high margin high fashion industry, but there are a lot similar realities like these to be found everywhere.

I.E a big earthquake happened a while ago in romagna and the most surprising fact was that once the chinese sweatshop were evaquated the local pupulation found themselves almost outnumbered by them in certain areas.

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