Negative Effects Of Sweatshops

In an article I read by Monica Foley,she describes the workplace that the workers in The Triangle shirtwaist factory worked in as, “The workers were mostly young immigrant woman, who worked long hours in the hot, cramped, and dusty conditions for low wages. ”(Foley, 2017) The conditions are not great,and it is not in the best place to work in. Also in this source Foley says,“At a time when workplace safety was unregulated and worker’s compensation virtually nonexistent...”(Foley, 2017) The work is not being checked and it shows how these conditions are being allowed without caring about the safety of the workers.

According to the author “the harsher the working conditions and the more companies can avoid responsibility for catastrophes they cause, the more money can go into the pockets of the rich” (Loomis 53). So, companies contract their work out and they make their profit from these reduced labor costs all while not having to claim responsibility for anything. The saddest part of all of this is that the countries these factories are built in do really need the jobs they create but these jobs are killing their

     Fortunately, companies can afford to pay workers higher wages. If this were not true they would not have been able to become so successful with production in the United States. It is a shame that any company would see themselves as being morally or ethically correct allowing it’s employees to work in a hazardous environment. Companies should want their employees to enjoy the place they work in. This would increase satisfaction in the work place, which would in turn increase production and decrease employee turnover.

Modern sweat shops are problems. After researching the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Manhattan ,New York and the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Both industrial suburb, I notice very little change in the business practice, morals, and ethics that fuel the sweatshop motif of cheap labor to keep profits high and costs low. Both incidents involved garment factory who’s employed mainly young working 12 to 14 hours days in an unsafe building. In both incident the dangerous working condition and safety violations that led to mass casualties. In the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, workers

Cambridge dictionary defines sweatshop as a small factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours under bad conditions. People working there are deprived of any kind of worker’s benefit. Child labor is very common in sweatshops. Workers in sweatshops are often missing key pieces of safety equipment such as face masks to ensure safe breathing or work in environments with insufficient means of emergency exit since employers may lock the doors and windows to prevent theft during working hours (Hartman ). The workers are abused, beaten, kicked, and shoved, even if they are sick or pregnant. Sweatshop is nothing but a modern form of slavery, because the workers are forced to work in harsh condition for a little wage, and they are denied any fundamental human rights .

Thesis statement: Sweatshops, when left to operate without government intervention, are the most efficient way of out poverty.

A majority of the clothing worn and purchased today in the United States has been manufactured overseas in sweatshops. Since the beginning of factories and businesses, owners have always looked for a way to cut production costs while still managing to produce large quantities of their product. It was found that the best way to cut costs was to utilize cheap labor in factories known as sweatshops. According to the US General Account Office, sweatshops are defined as a “business that regularly violates both wage or child labor and safety or health laws”. These sweatshops exploit their workers in various ways: making them work long hours in dangerous working conditions for little to no pay. Personally, I believe that the come up and employment of these sweatshops is unethical, but through my research I plan to find out if these shops produce more positive than negatives by giving these people in need a job despite the rough conditions.

Some companies have acceded to public pressure to reduce or end their use of sweatshops. Such firms often publicize the fact that their products are not made with Anti-globalization activists and environmentalists also deplore transfer of heavy industrial manufacturing (such as chemical production) to the developing world. Although chemical factories have little in common with sweatshops in the original sense, detractors describe them as such and claim that there are negative environmental and health impacts (such as pollution and birth defects, respectively) on workers and the local community.

The workers are subjected to terrible conditions almost to a ridiculous point. Many of these people are immigrants, unable to get a better job, similar to immigrants in The Jungle. These people are desperate to get any job they can and will accept a job that puts them at risk. Workers on the line are given chain mail to prevent lacerations, but the “knives somehow manage to get passed it”. Other workers are forced to “stand in a river of blood” cutting steers’ necks “every ten seconds” (169). No average person would want to work like this on a daily basis and companies are taking advantage of these immigrants some of which are in America

Sweatshops are factories that are used around the world that major brand companies use to make products. These factories have gained media attention and controversy for the long hours and low pay given to the workers. Many people say to boycott these factories because of the latter reasons, but consumers shouldn’t boycott companies that make sweatshop products. The first reason consumers shouldn’t boycott these products would be people actually deliberately take these jobs because in developing countries most jobs don’t pay that much. The second reason consumers shouldn’t boycott sweatshop products would be that it allows a lot of people in the developing worlds to rise out of poverty.

Ravisankar begins his essay by stating his current situation and because of his current situation his force to find the best deals. These deals we will later find out they come out of cost. The problem he identifies is "that low- cost driven consumerism is the high human cost it takes to achieve lower and lower prices." (Ravisankar, 2006) Ravisankar assumes his readers are college students who are low-cost driven consumers.

There are many views with the problem of utilizing sweatshops in developing economies. Many insist that utilizing sweatshops in developing economies composes exploitation. In certain circumstances, this may be true, but not all. It is an ongoing controversy of demolishing sweatshops and changing the laws of labor. Many anti-sweatshop activist supports the idea of demolishing sweatshops. Activist commonly focus on work conditions and low wages causing them to be ill – formed of the economy as a whole. Taking a deeper look into these developing countries, it is with out of doubt that these countries benefit from sweatshops. Sweatshops should not be demolished because the employees are benefited with income, their economy receives growth and

Imagine a world where trade was not allowed. If someone wanted an apple, then they would have to wander until they found an apple seed, plant and grow the tree using the rain they gathered from hand-made cups or barrels, and wait for years until the tree brought forth fruit. In order to build a house, this person would have to cut down trees with an axe that they forged and built themselves, then they would have to make mud to hold the lumber together so that they could build the house. Forget about electricity, cars, cell phones, most modern technology, because none of these things would be possible without trade. Fortunately, we live in a time when trade is widely accepted across the world. Charles Wheelan, an international economist, notes

Sweatshops can be defined in many different ways. Sweatshops are factories that don’t follow U.S. fundamental labor laws. This includes; if the workers are getting paid enough; or if they are getting taken advantage of because of age. Sweatshops are factories that mostly make clothing, and have workers that work long hours at low costs in terrible conditions. In fact, this happens mostly in underdeveloped or developing countries. According to the website, “dosomething.org” in the article “11 Facts About Sweatshops” it states, “In developing countries an estimated 168 million children ages 5 to 14 are forced to work.” Sweatshops also make products such as cotton, brisks, and coffee among many others. In the same article it says, “The majority of child laborers are found in Asia and the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence, with one in five children in child labor.” The main question is should the United States of America support the sweatshops in undeveloped countries to help the international problem or not?

Americans love to shop. With malls everywhere you go, shopping just might be America's favorite past time! When you are out shopping though, do you ever stop to think where all of those clothes and shoes come from? When I was younger, well, actually until recently, I always thought they were all made by machines. Shirt machines, pants machines…you get the picture. I have learned, however, that for the most part, clothes are still made on sewing machines, by people, and often under circumstances that we can only imagine.