The Silk Stocking's Testimony
I am a silk stocking. I was manufactured in Lyon, France, in the autumn of 1887, in a factory that employed three hundred women and paid them starvation wages. I was woven from the cocoons of silkworms that had been boiled alive in their own threads. I was dyed black, hung to dry, inspected by hands that had never known softness, and packed into a crate with four hundred and ninety-nine others...
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