The truth behind your £10 dress: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling Shein's success

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Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.

If there is no more space to sit, they stand in the street."I've been working in these factories for more than 40 years," said one woman who spent just 20 minutes eating her meal.

In June, Donald Trump's pick for US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he had "grave ethics concerns" about Shein's "deep ties to the People's Republic of China": "Slave labour, sweatshops, and trade tricks are the dirty secrets behind Shein's success," he wrote.