The “Why are you Clothes so Cheap Article” is about how Kalpana's family had something tragic happen, Kalpana had to quit school and start to work at a factory. One day her factory had a fire, it was hard to escape due to the environment, when the Rana Plaza collapsed and many people died, Kalpana became angry and inspired. Today Kalpana travels the world speaking out and is calling out big name brands. The “Child Labor Article” is about how India’s child labor rates keep increasing, their government is trying to create new laws to help lower the rate. The government said that kids under the age of 14 can work, but after school hours and only for a family business. If you break the law for the first time you must pay $800 and 2 years in prison.
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Working condition in India are very unsafe for young children, they are often around big machines or handling heavy industry and making fireworks. In “Why are you Clothes so Cheap” it say’s,“In Bangladesh and other countries, many factory owners save money by failing to provide a safe workplace. Their workers toil in terrible and even deadly conditions” ( Lewis, 9). These factories are having their workers work in dumb and they don’t care because they are just making money, do you think this is fair? To work for long hours, getting paid very poor, and working in such horrible conditions. The “Child Labor Article” states, “The proposed laws could actually push more children into the workforce, endangering their education and putting them at greater risk of exploitations” (Los Angeles Times, 2). This quote is saying that even though the government is trying to create new laws to help end child labor, they could be putting more children into a workforce. What law could they create to help, but not increase the property
Working condition in India are very unsafe for young children, they are often around big machines or handling heavy industry and making fireworks. In “Why are you Clothes so Cheap” it say’s,“In Bangladesh and other countries, many factory owners save money by failing to provide a safe workplace. Their workers toil in terrible and even deadly conditions” ( Lewis, 9). These factories are having their workers work in dumb and they don’t care because they are just making money, do you think this is fair? To work for long hours, getting paid very poor, and working in such horrible conditions. The “Child Labor Article” states, “The proposed laws could actually push more children into the workforce, endangering their education and putting them at greater risk of exploitations” (Los Angeles Times, 2). This quote is saying that even though the government is trying to create new laws to help end child labor, they could be putting more children into a workforce. What law could they create to help, but not increase the property