Sweatshops are defined as factories or workshops, specializing in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Workers are trapped in an awful cycle of exploitation, they are made to pay a certain amount of money, usually between $1,000 - $2,000, and are rarely ever paid and if so they are paid less than the minimum wage, less than their daily expenses and are never able to save up any money. Jordan is one of the many countries that are guilty of all these injustices towards these people that are living in poverty and just want to be able to support their families. These free market capitalism continue to exist because of the aspiration companies have to obtain high profits,
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Once a worker has settled into a factory they get stripped away from their belonging, the “employers” tend to confiscate their workers’ passport along with being forced to lie to government authorities as well as company inspectors about their working conditions. Mohammed Saiful, said that many times the workers were put to work outrages owners that they had to sleep on the factory’s floors for a couple of hours, before returning to work at 8 a.m. He also said “The workers got so exhausted they became sick…They could hardly stay awake at their machines” (Greenhouse, Barbaro 2). Factory owners tend to lie about the proper health care their workers receive but when workers report the truth they’re punish and have their pay docked. Another employee in these factories said “In the four months I was in Jordan, they didn’t pay us a single penny…When we asked management for our money and for better food, they were very angry at us. We were put in some sort of jail for four days without anything to eat. And then they forced us to go back to Bangladesh” (Greenhouse, Barbaro
Once a worker has settled into a factory they get stripped away from their belonging, the “employers” tend to confiscate their workers’ passport along with being forced to lie to government authorities as well as company inspectors about their working conditions. Mohammed Saiful, said that many times the workers were put to work outrages owners that they had to sleep on the factory’s floors for a couple of hours, before returning to work at 8 a.m. He also said “The workers got so exhausted they became sick…They could hardly stay awake at their machines” (Greenhouse, Barbaro 2). Factory owners tend to lie about the proper health care their workers receive but when workers report the truth they’re punish and have their pay docked. Another employee in these factories said “In the four months I was in Jordan, they didn’t pay us a single penny…When we asked management for our money and for better food, they were very angry at us. We were put in some sort of jail for four days without anything to eat. And then they forced us to go back to Bangladesh” (Greenhouse, Barbaro