China Blue

China Blue is the story of "Jasmine", a young girl who works in a Chinese jeans factory. This factory is a sweatshop of the worse kind--the workers live in horrible company-provided dorms, they work 12+ hours/day (often much longer), are paid very little, and treated inhumanely by the owners and managers.

Many of the viewers on the PBS Web site commented that they now want to buy American-made products. I disagree--I think it's better to buy these products because as the country gets richer, the labor laws and conditions will improve. That's the hope at least.

This is one of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. Once again, PBS strikes gold.