The kids works in a jaw-dropping electronics factory in Manila which makes millions and millions of parts for the electronic gadgets that they rely on at home. The targets in the factory are seriously high and the overall aim is to get a human being to be as efficient as any machine. How will the kids cope with the sterile work environment, the head-to-toe protective suits and working at the fastest of speeds in total silence?
The kids move on to the Philippines as they visit a jewellery factory on the island of Cebu. The conditions in the factory are hotter than anything they’ve experienced before and tempers begin to fray within the group of kids. They are also taken into the interior of the island to stay in a remote village where many of the people support their families by making the jewellery.
Stacey takes the kids to their second job in Indonesia, in a vast, high-tech clothing factory, which occupies a site the size of eleven football pitches. The kids find the poverty outside the factory gates difficult to stomach and they finally get the chance to grill a factory boss about workers’ wages.