Sweatshop are the factories or workshops, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Charles Kingsley offered a formal definition of "sweating" in 1849.
“Is a surviving remnant of the industrial system which preceded the factory system, when industry was chiefly conducted on the piece-price plan, in small shops or the homes of the workers?"(UNC)
The framework of this definition – that sweatshops are defined by a relationship of subcontract – was common in the early attempts to define the term. These workers could be anyone, children, women, men. The business of sweatshops had been around for a long time now, one of the earliest examples of a sweatshop was in the crude textile mills of Ecuador. Spanish conquerors put the native population to work in sweatshop conditions in the manufacture of cloth, rough garments, and assorted textile goods. It later spread into rest …show more content…
The first historical connection the one might make is the Lowell Girls. The mill girls were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. They would work from dawn to dusk. There were low waged workers. One of the first strikes that ever took place in this country was in Lowell in 1836. When it was announced that the wages were to be cut down, great indignation was felt, and it was decided to strike or "turn out". This was done. The mills were shut down, and the girls went from their several corporations in procession to the grove on Chapel Hill, and listened to incendiary speeches from some early labor reformers. If the U.S consumers won’t raise the pays of the worker in other countries than they might as well come out and shut down the sweat shops, which might lead to crisis in
“Is a surviving remnant of the industrial system which preceded the factory system, when industry was chiefly conducted on the piece-price plan, in small shops or the homes of the workers?"(UNC)
The framework of this definition – that sweatshops are defined by a relationship of subcontract – was common in the early attempts to define the term. These workers could be anyone, children, women, men. The business of sweatshops had been around for a long time now, one of the earliest examples of a sweatshop was in the crude textile mills of Ecuador. Spanish conquerors put the native population to work in sweatshop conditions in the manufacture of cloth, rough garments, and assorted textile goods. It later spread into rest …show more content…
The first historical connection the one might make is the Lowell Girls. The mill girls were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. They would work from dawn to dusk. There were low waged workers. One of the first strikes that ever took place in this country was in Lowell in 1836. When it was announced that the wages were to be cut down, great indignation was felt, and it was decided to strike or "turn out". This was done. The mills were shut down, and the girls went from their several corporations in procession to the grove on Chapel Hill, and listened to incendiary speeches from some early labor reformers. If the U.S consumers won’t raise the pays of the worker in other countries than they might as well come out and shut down the sweat shops, which might lead to crisis in