In a poorly lit factory, unable to tell whether it is night or day, a worker toils to finish the near impossible order due in a few days. The fashion industry takes advantage of the consumer, by selling garments at an extremely high price compared to the cost to make said garment, and the worker by using sweatshops for cheap, effective mass production labor neglecting the fact that the workers are underpaid, abused, and malnourished.
The U.S Department of Labor defines a sweatshop as factory that violates two or more labor laws. Although the United States have strict control over domestic sweatshops, the overseas governments are a lot more lenient on the matter than the U.S., making them easily exploitable by corporations. The manipulation …show more content…
In California, sweatshop workers are also paid significantly less than the state minimum wage of $5.75 per hour. The Census in 2000 reported that sweatshop workers in California made an average of $5.18 per hour. This average wage was closer to the Federal minimum wage of the United States which, at the time, was $5.15 per hour. However, there are many secret underground garment factories that have not been accounted for and have not been discovered by labor officials. And as long as the underground garment factories have not been discovered, they can continue to take advantage of the …show more content…
Consumers and corporations forget that it is people that make the clothes they buy and sell. People that are forced to work in cruel conditions. People that risk their lives everyday for a barely enough money to buy groceries. People that commit suicide due to the abuse and neglect. One woman hung herself in the sweatshops bathroom after allegedly being raped by her manager. The Jordanian Department of Labor did nothing when informed of the abuses. The world can not stand idly by as workers and consumers are taken advantage of. Too many people have become victims of the corporate greed that inhabits the modern world. Sweatshops can no longer be the source for cheap, and easy labor. The consumer has been exploited too much during this time. The $200 pair of shoes that cost $5 and the lives of countless foreign workers to make is too high a price to pay. The statistics are available consumers are willing to pay more for goods not produced in a sweatshop, but the retailers are unwilling to lose any potential profits, or chance to save money so they continue to endanger the lives of hundreds of
The U.S Department of Labor defines a sweatshop as factory that violates two or more labor laws. Although the United States have strict control over domestic sweatshops, the overseas governments are a lot more lenient on the matter than the U.S., making them easily exploitable by corporations. The manipulation …show more content…
In California, sweatshop workers are also paid significantly less than the state minimum wage of $5.75 per hour. The Census in 2000 reported that sweatshop workers in California made an average of $5.18 per hour. This average wage was closer to the Federal minimum wage of the United States which, at the time, was $5.15 per hour. However, there are many secret underground garment factories that have not been accounted for and have not been discovered by labor officials. And as long as the underground garment factories have not been discovered, they can continue to take advantage of the …show more content…
Consumers and corporations forget that it is people that make the clothes they buy and sell. People that are forced to work in cruel conditions. People that risk their lives everyday for a barely enough money to buy groceries. People that commit suicide due to the abuse and neglect. One woman hung herself in the sweatshops bathroom after allegedly being raped by her manager. The Jordanian Department of Labor did nothing when informed of the abuses. The world can not stand idly by as workers and consumers are taken advantage of. Too many people have become victims of the corporate greed that inhabits the modern world. Sweatshops can no longer be the source for cheap, and easy labor. The consumer has been exploited too much during this time. The $200 pair of shoes that cost $5 and the lives of countless foreign workers to make is too high a price to pay. The statistics are available consumers are willing to pay more for goods not produced in a sweatshop, but the retailers are unwilling to lose any potential profits, or chance to save money so they continue to endanger the lives of hundreds of