Wake up to poverty problem

MANILA: It's a page straight from Charles Dickens, the only difference being that there are no ragged children in it. But there are ragged men and women. 

To keep its workers awake while they sew baby clothes for export to America, a factory in Taytay, Anvil Ensembles, has hit on a novel idea. The original one did not prove good enough: that was to have someone go around rapping with a stick the tables of workers who were dozing off. It startled them to wakefulness but not for long. They dozed off again soon afterwards.