How Xmas Gifts are Made: Repressed Chinese Labor

When you buy that Christmas gift think about it is made. Most likely it made in China by laborers working in slave-like conditions, earning 17 cents per dolls that sell for $16 in U.S.:

The pouty Bratz dolls so popular as Christmas presents are made at a factory in southern China where workers are obliged to toil up to 94 hours a week, among other violations, a labour rights group said in a report released Friday.

This explains why Walmart's prices are so low. It also explains why the retail giant doesn't mind the labor abuses in China. After all, they have similar labor practices in the States.