Forced labor in Switzerland? How industry exploited young women (Swiss Press Text 2023, by Yves Demuth) - Swiss Press Award
Beobachter
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2023
Yves Demuth
An elderly woman from Bern recounts how, in the 1960s, she was forced to work as a foster mother for the textile industry without receiving any wages. Documents attest to a system that was already criticized at the time as "good business." The women's AHV (Old Age and Survivors' Insurance) cards provide the first evidence of how the "scam" worked in detail.
