Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together, and training robots to put themselves out of work entirely.
New reporting by the Guardian documented this emerging gig taking hold at manufacturing facilities around the world. Outside Delhi, a 32-year-old garment maker identified as Lalita says her factory now requires everyone to strap a GoPro camera to their heads at the start of each shift.
“We found it funny at first, because of how we all looked with that headgear,” Lalita told the Guardian. Yet as cameras started to dominate the shop floor, workers became more wary that their every word would be picked up by the boss, she explains, resulting in a much quieter, more paranoid workplace.
“The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us,” she added.
