The human rights group, the National Labor Committee, has accused the Disney Corporation of using factories in China where workers labor under sweatshop conditions to produce children’s books. Protesters dressed in Disney cartoon character costumes demonstrated in New York in front of the Disney store. Here is National Labor Committee Director Charles Kernaghan describing the alleged conditions in one Disney factory in China: “When we buy this Disney book, in this Disney store, or we buy these Disney books in Wal-Mart, would the American people ever stop, could they imagine young workers in China forced to work 10 to 13 hours a day, six and seven days a week. Working, grueling sixty, seventy even ninety hours a week. Workers paid as low as 35 cents an hour, below the legal minimum wage, workers trapped in misery.”

• Charles Kernaghan, the National Labor Committee