Most people believed that sweatshops are good for customers and companies. They strongly believed that they give labor a chance to work. They might even bring new fortunes for wealth to poor countries. However, the benefits are really limited. The drawbacks are still remaining in both sides. This research will argue that sweatshops should remove from our society. Three points will support this thesis. Sweatshops cause more inequality in this world. They cause bad habits of consumers. Furthermore, sweatshops cause harm to the environment. These points will be explained in more detail in the next paragraphs. The conclusion is that everyone needs to work together to end sweatshops.
Global inequality is a serious problem. It gives some people …show more content…
They let rich people buy things they do not need. One example is a “hoodie” that the labour was only 20 cents to make (Ballinger, 2011, p. 55). That means the hoodie can be sold for very cheap, so people will want to buy it even if they do not need it. Sweatshops also make people care less about what they buy. The low cost makes them think less about the value of what they buy. It is different when the labour and cost are fair. Then people think more about the real value of what they buy. At the same time, sweatshops let people buy things without thinking where they came from. The sweatshop is usually far away from the consumer. The consumer can feel separate from the people who made the product. In 2009, fourteen Chinese workers killed themselves (Guo et al., 2012, p. 486). They worked for Foxconn, which makes iPhones for Apple (Guo et al., 2012, p. 486). People who buy an iPhone in Canada would not think much about those suicides. They are so far away and the company name is so different. They would not usually think “Those people died so I can have this iPhone.” However, if the suicides were in a Canadian factory, people would care more about where the iPhone came from. Sweatshops let people buy things without thinking of the suffering of the
Global inequality is a serious problem. It gives some people …show more content…
They let rich people buy things they do not need. One example is a “hoodie” that the labour was only 20 cents to make (Ballinger, 2011, p. 55). That means the hoodie can be sold for very cheap, so people will want to buy it even if they do not need it. Sweatshops also make people care less about what they buy. The low cost makes them think less about the value of what they buy. It is different when the labour and cost are fair. Then people think more about the real value of what they buy. At the same time, sweatshops let people buy things without thinking where they came from. The sweatshop is usually far away from the consumer. The consumer can feel separate from the people who made the product. In 2009, fourteen Chinese workers killed themselves (Guo et al., 2012, p. 486). They worked for Foxconn, which makes iPhones for Apple (Guo et al., 2012, p. 486). People who buy an iPhone in Canada would not think much about those suicides. They are so far away and the company name is so different. They would not usually think “Those people died so I can have this iPhone.” However, if the suicides were in a Canadian factory, people would care more about where the iPhone came from. Sweatshops let people buy things without thinking of the suffering of the