Leading British retailers Tesco and Primark…are accused of cashing in on the recession with cheap fashion sales by exploiting overseas garment workers. The accusation comes as…Tesco announced record £3 billion full-year profits and Primark's owner, Associated British Foods, revealed a half-year 10 per cent rise in the retailer's profits…War on Want condemned both companies for driving down labour costs from suppliers, whose employees pay a high price through poverty pay and worsening living standards. Its research published in December showed workers producing clothes for Tesco and Primark in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka earn as little as 7p an hour for up to 80-hour weeks…The average workers' pay, £19.16 (2280 taka) a month, represented less than half a living wage.