To introduce a research paper on the conditions of the sweatshops that mostly women and children work inside of to make our clothing today. Sweatshops are located in Central America, South America, Asia, China, India, and parts of Europe also. The sweatshops that are listed above all of child laboring inside of them, especially being locked inside and not being able to leave until work is done.
However describing the word "sweatshop" conjures up images of small, dangerous, and nasty occupations in New York's Lower East Side. Immigrant women and children work long hours in factories for nothing being taught to the children and small pay. After the long 15 hour workdays, some workers will have to bring some of their own work from the factory …show more content…
Locked doors prevented people from leaving. With no other hope, some had committed suicide from the triangle's high-floor windows, while other burnt themselves alive, 146 workers died. Sweeping national legislation had been enacted in 1938 when President Roosevelt had agreed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The law had imposed this day - that set a minimum wage, compels overtime pay after 40 hours a week, and exclusives child labor and industrial homework. It had brought shelter and relief to tens of thousands of people working in factories. The sweatshops are also common in other cities with large immigrant communities. Struggling to build a higher-up life in their new country, Asian and Hispanic immigrants work under slave-like conditions. They repay thousands of dollars to those who smuggled them into the USA. Most garment workers are poor immigrant women. NYC's sweatshops function behind locked doors - often in the same exact buildings that had been used more than sixty years ago in the Lower East Side and the garment district. The steam from clothing presses can be spewing from pipes stuck through the boarded-up windows. 4,500 of NYC's 7,000 garment industries are sweatshop ("Sweatshops Harsh Conditions Create Public Support for
However describing the word "sweatshop" conjures up images of small, dangerous, and nasty occupations in New York's Lower East Side. Immigrant women and children work long hours in factories for nothing being taught to the children and small pay. After the long 15 hour workdays, some workers will have to bring some of their own work from the factory …show more content…
Locked doors prevented people from leaving. With no other hope, some had committed suicide from the triangle's high-floor windows, while other burnt themselves alive, 146 workers died. Sweeping national legislation had been enacted in 1938 when President Roosevelt had agreed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The law had imposed this day - that set a minimum wage, compels overtime pay after 40 hours a week, and exclusives child labor and industrial homework. It had brought shelter and relief to tens of thousands of people working in factories. The sweatshops are also common in other cities with large immigrant communities. Struggling to build a higher-up life in their new country, Asian and Hispanic immigrants work under slave-like conditions. They repay thousands of dollars to those who smuggled them into the USA. Most garment workers are poor immigrant women. NYC's sweatshops function behind locked doors - often in the same exact buildings that had been used more than sixty years ago in the Lower East Side and the garment district. The steam from clothing presses can be spewing from pipes stuck through the boarded-up windows. 4,500 of NYC's 7,000 garment industries are sweatshop ("Sweatshops Harsh Conditions Create Public Support for