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Georgina Briers is struggling. It is late in the evening, but the 20-year-old is hunched over a dilapidated sewing machine in a New Delhi workshop, unsuccessfully trying to stitch a seam in a garment."
I can't do it, she tearfully moans. "It's not possible. I'm too hot."

All around her, rows of Indian workers glance up momentarily to see what the fuss is all about, before returning to their frenetic stitching.
Still crying, Georgina slumps back and groans. "This is how I imagined a sweatshop to be," she says. "Dirty, smelly - it's absolutely horrible. It's my idea of hell."

For someone whose idea of eternal damnation would previously have been a week without a shopping trip to Primark, Topshop or H&M, it is no surprise that Georgina is finding the work punishing.
She is used to buying new outfits and accessories on an almost daily basis.

For four weeks, instead of buying clothes, Georgina would instead be making them. With six other British youngsters, she was taken to India as part of a new BBC series, to experience first-hand how her throwaway High Street outfits are made.

What they would experience:
Working up to 18-hour days in soaring temperatures
being shouted at by stressed supervisors
having to sleep by their sewing machines
required to ask permission to get up from sewing machine, even for the bathroom.

Sitting in a line of 30 workers who produce the firm's total of 300 garments a day, every detail of their lives was timed and controlled.
After training, they took their place in a hangar-like room of roughly 1,000 workers, where some were expected to sew collars (one a minute) and others sleeves (two per minute).
And like their Indian co-workers, they were forced to survive on wages of less than £2 a day - enough only for the most basic of goods.

Demoted 3 times, Georgina ended the week making onnly £1.50 p/day.