ABSTRACT
After visiting some sweatshops being operated by Bengalis in London's East End in July 1987 Prince Charles said that the poverty he had seen was not too far removed from conditions on the Indian sub-continent. ‘All we are managing to do is replicate some of the conditions these people have left behind’ (Guardian, 2 July 1987). His observation illustrates a change which is taking place in the discussion of the development of the First as well as the Third World. It also marks growing acknowledgment of the connections between poverty in the two places.
