Carol Shelton, 48, friendly but blunt, says that every day for nine years she worked at Lion she would come home exhausted, her hands swollen from pushing stiff fabric past a moving needle.

• 她说，在受雇于公司的9年中，每天回到家里都精疲力竭，两只手由于要不停地把浆挺的布料推向缝衣针累得总是红肿着。