Now the first undercover investigation into factories supplying Shein, the Chinese retailer loved by millions of young women in the UK and around the globe, has exposed the disturbing experiences of workers making its clothes.Asked about when they take time off, one person explains that they work seven days a week, saying: “There’s no such thing as Sundays here.” The workers in the first factory are paid a base monthly salary of 4,000 yuan (£500) to make a minimum of 500 garments a day.That is nearly eight times more than worldwide figures for Boohoo – itself notorious for previous exposés of worker exploitation by its suppliers in Leicester, which it has been working to address.High-street names like H&M and Zara don’t really compare.” She explains: “While other fast-fashion brands also use cookies to track what you’re doing online and chase you around the internet, Shein ups the ante so much… As somebody says in the documentary: it knows what you want before you know that you want it.” The low pay for Chinese workers, allowing the firm to undercut other fast-fashion companies and drive the sector’s prices even lower, is considered to be one factor in the recent struggles of its British rivals.Manchester-based Missguided was forced to enter administration earlier this year due to a financial crisis that left suppliers fighting to survive, as revealed by i. Boohoo’s market value has fallen 87 per cent in a year and last month it announced a 10 per cent fall in revenues for the six months to 31 August."