Are Sweatshops Ethical

Sweatshop; a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Many major companies domestic and abroad utilize sweatshops in order to produce their product for their consumers. Is it ethical to exploit workers in countries when the labor laws aren’t as strict and do not prohibit such actions. To truly grasp the question when it comes to sweatshops it helps to have all the facts as to help you decide as to whether they are evil and should be abolished or if they are necessary in the global economy. Sweatshops are places that violate at least two labor laws, as defined by the United States Department of Labor. These sweatshops in addition …show more content…
Many people in more developed countries get upset at child labor and think that it should not be exploited and it is morally wrong for companies to use it. They argue that a child should not be required to work in these sweatshops not only because of their age but also because they are not the safest conditions. Most sweatshops value these children because their smaller hands are useful on different machines. People on the other side of this argument point out that there is no better alternative so most of these children have no choice but to work. Families in these poorer countries rely on everyone working, even the children, just to be able to …show more content…
Sweatshops do more good for developing countries than harm. They bring in jobs to places where agricultural work was all there was and many families struggled to survive. Even though the wages are low in many cases it is more than what most people could make from farming. I can not think of an alternative to sweatshops that wouldn’t increase prices on consumer goods and in the present day in age an increase in prices is something a lot of people, including me, would find an issue