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Abuses which trigger the anti sweatshop movement

By its definition sweatshop is an environment for working in dangerous or difficult conditions . To address their situation , the workers in this case have limited rights . There are several factors that have lead to have activists on the anti-sweatshops movements , though some of the workers in these sweatshops tend to oppose it in one way or the other These factors against the sweatshops have been termed by the anti sweatshops activists as abuses to human rights

(Richard , 1999 , 16 These abuses that have triggered the ant-sweatshop movements at places of work include the following

Firstly , is that workers are exposed to working environment that is surrounded by harmful materials . In many of chemical manufacturing companies , the workers are surrounded by harmful chemical . Some of these chemicals when inhaled or comes to contact with the body affects the human health negatively . In other big goods manufacturing companies workers tend to work with or near harmful machines . These machines have been severally reported to cause injuries to workers . The injured workers in this kind of sweatshop in many cases end up not been compensated . This factor has really lead to have the anti sweatshop movements all over the world by international labor organization (Ralph 2005 , 22

The second abuse factor in sweatshops is in situations where the workers get exposed to hazard working situations . This working environment condition affects the human heath as they are prone to many strange diseases...