Principles of Sociology

1 . A sweatshop is a factory where workers are forced to work with low wages , no benefits , long hours , cramped and unsanitary conditions Companies who use sweatshops prefer to use children so they can pay even less or nothing at all . Most sweatshop laborers don 't even get paid enough to survive on . Thousands each year die from exhaustion caused by over work (12 hours per day , 7 days a week , injury from machinery , and abuse by factory management , and sickness due to unsanitary conditions Children are the majority of the people who

die due to this immoral exploitation of workers . Welcome to Anti-Sweatshops labor (ASSL ) League google .com

According to this website , sweatshop practices are known to be widespread to countries such as Bangladesh , China , Dominican Republic El Salvador , India , Jamaica , Malaysia , Nicaragua , Oman , Peru , Romania Sri Lanka , Turkey , Vietnam , and some other countries . Though often associated with the third-world countries , these can exist in any country . They have existed in several cultures including Early-American culture beginning in 1850 's . To , well if true , companies that are very well- known and popular Nike , Phillips-Van Heusen , Disney , Guess , The Gap , Banana Republic , Old Navy , Tommy Hilfiger , Reebok , Levi Strauss Liz Caliborne , Ralph Lauren , which produce many different goods , from clothing to furniture

Defenders of these factories claim that people choose to work in them because they offer them substantially higher wages and better working conditions compared to their previous jobs of manual farm labour , and that sweatshops are an early step in the process of technological and economic development whereby a poor country turns itself into a rich country . In addition , when anti-sweatshop activists were successful in getting it to be closed . Some of the employees who had been working their ended up starving to death while others with no more other choice to make turned up to prostitution

Offenders , on the other hand , also had their voice outs to the companies which had been initiating this `sweatshop ' idea . On this situation Unions are not allowed and whenever one is formed , it is destroyed by Union busters (most of the time local thugs and criminals ) hired by the companies . Since , unions can 't be formed workers can 't likewise receive better wages , benefits or rights . Any organization built by the workers will be immediately destroyed at once . These people are basically slaves who where scared in staying , paid with very low wages , even nothing at all , and are denied with basic benefits (even human rights . In connection , some factory management rape , abuse , and assault the workers putting a sense of fear in then so that they won 't try to leave instead , choose to stay despite of the abuse they receive . This is such an unfavorable , illegal , immoral , out of human rights , that should be strongly destroyed and whoever supported and used this kind of employment must be punishable by law

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