there are sweatshops all over south-eastern asia. All of the Gap companies' (i.e. Gap, Gap Kids, Baby Gap, Bannana Republic, and Old Navy) clothes are produced in sweatshops. When you're being told what to do by someone who is carrying a stick with a peice of leather with a thumbtack in it tells you what to do, you don't think about the words "equal opportunity employers." you don't care if the white guy next to you is getting more than the black man on the other side. The words "Affirmative Action" means that you'll be sure to get just as much as anyone else. In Saipan (a US territory in Southern Asia) Abercrombie and Fitch's clothes are made in sweatshops. The workers' ages range from 6 years old to 86 years old. the places where they sleep are infested with rats and other pests, the plubing doesn't work, and the water from the well is contaminated. In Charlottesville, Virginia, the Tyson Chicken corporation houses migrant farm workers. the reason why their housing is up on the 3rd floor, 25 some feet from the ground, and is not adjacent to any type of fire escape, is so that no one can escape. should they escape, the illegal immagrants would be found, and the company would be destroyed completely. How do we stop sweatshops?
i don't like sweatshops and they shouldn't be here but what people don't understand is that most of these people have nowhere else to go its either that or die and banning child labor will do nothing but make the children poorer then they already were they need education freedom and lovingness which most often they won't get.
just want to edge my two sence in here. i agree that sweat shops are bad but i also think that there is a problem with child labor laws, i think that children should be able to work if they so choose, i'm 14 and i would love to get a job, i aplied for one with a company with whom i have a history, and they were going to hire me but the stupid child labor laws got in the way and needless to say i dont have that job right now, even though i have the experience and know how to do this job properly. i have to admit the child labor laws had there place in the time that they were established but now they are getting in the way!
If you want to do the fun stuff, you have to go through the hard stuff
Except...sweatshops have never made a worker wealthy. Or even gotten a worker out of poverty. Sweatshops keep workers in poverty. What are you talking about.
I do not belive in either one of thoes, i think they are wrong and ever child should have the opprotunity to go to school and get an education. I do nnot buy Nike because they own sweat shops, i try to stay away from products that use sweat shops or children to make there products. I hope in the future we can do enough to stop this and make a better world.
Boycott, but then there would be no corporation left to buy from. Here's some more to add to your list: DeBeers diamonds is a global monopoly that physically tortures and kills anybody who threatens to compete with them. Diamonds are actually worth about as much as any other rock, but a lack of competition allows DeBeers to jack the price up however high they want. They also use sweatshop-style labor. McDonalds has defeated hundreds of unions attempted by its workers. Philip Morris and all the other tobacco companies have withheld information about the hazards of smoking and their attempts to target minors in their advertising, among many, many other things.
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