Sweatshops And Poverty Essay

Poverty is a multidimensional concept that encompasses inadequacies in the three most fundamental pillars of human life: access to healthcare, education and living standards. Due to the capitalistic nature of our societal mechanisms, corporations exploit and thrive off of poverty. Cheap labour is a facet of their exponential profit. Poverty is not the root of socially immoral behaviour but is rather a product of it, as it is a result of the free-market’s hierarchical, trickle-down wealth pyramid where CEOs and corporation heads receive large sums of money opposed to their workers who are paid minimally, further polarizing wealth classes. This wealth scarcity amongst the working-class furthers the free-market’s aims by encouraging and allowing for exploitative behaviour as their needs are never satisfied and thus they endure harsh working environments, like those in sweatshops, for minimal compensation. These sweatshops are characterized by poor, socially unacceptable working conditions. The work …show more content…
Introducing a fixed minimum wage, a workers’ unions, ethical codes for businesses, encouraging consumers to only purchase from Fair Trade businesses and creating awareness of the harsh treatment through media to destigmatize sweatshops could all be means to address the issue.
Conclusively, these dilapidated working environments are juxtaposed by the luxury and vigorous growth experienced by corporations as a result of, among many other things, cheap labour. This opulence, is ultimately testament to the unequal wealth distribution and immoral treatment of workers which enables this wealth to be so grand. Although the hierarchy cannot be destroyed, money can be spent by employers to ensure moral working protocols are adhered to and that these people are paid well-enough to meet their basic