Sweatshop

some people are forced to work in inhumane sweatshops, risking life and limb for very little pay. They stay in filthy living conditions, often suffering from disease and lack of resources. In China, workers work seven days a week for long hours and are either injured or receive fatal diseases from the heavy machinery that they use. Women can rarely get maternity leave or childcare and often have to send their…

reader how sweatshops can, in fact, help underdeveloped countries by providing millions of jobs. In an article entitled, “Where Sweatshops are Dreams,” published for The New York Times, Kristof speaks from his personal experience. He describes himself as someone, “who has spent years living in East Asia, and watching as living standards soared-because of sweatshop jobs.” He uses this position to paint a positive picture about the usefulness of sweatshops. In his article, he weighs sweatshops and…

Rajeev Ravisankar begins his essay, “Sweatshop Oppression,” by writing about the broke lives of college students and trying to find the best deals. The problem he identifies is the human cost to making inexpensive consumer items. He assumes his readers are college students. His purpose is to inform the reader of the inhumane conditions in sweatshops around the world, and the solution his University is seeking. In order to accomplish this purpose, he appeals mainly to the pathos, or the…

When I first came to the bakeshop, the communication between me and the owner was top-down and task-centered. She told me how to serve the customers, how to bake cakes and bread, and how to place the tableware on the tables. The task information was accurate and the channels of communication was clear. I only needed to follow the instruction and order from the owner of the bakeshop and did not engage in any down-top communication. Some of the tasks were standardized. For example, the proportion…

Part 2 The Penola Catholic College community should be taking a better and stronger action against sweatshops because sweatshops are against the catholic teaching that we and many other schools practice. Every person should take this problem as a very serious problem to our community. Every worker deserves the right to be respected and also to have the right to look after their health without being forced into working in poor conditions. The catholic social teaching teaches us that no one has…

One of 40 children, a young boy named Amitosh, describes to reporters from The Guardian, how his life as a sweatshop worker began. He was bought from his family's isolated village near Bihar and was dragged to New Delhi by train. Amitosh recalls that a few men came to their door in early July, convincing his parents that, if they sent their son to work in the city, they won't have to work in the farms. Looking through the bus windows and observing, Amitosh noticed one of the men pulling out a…

workers are paid with barely enough to get anything for themselves, let alone their families. These people are still human, they need a good amount of money to buy food, clothes, and medication. Instead of being in school, children are working in sweatshops to support parents. Here in the US, with permission to do so,…

Being able to speak when I want to. Being able to do what I want and not what someone else tells me to do. Freedom is going to the copss and not having them be paid to not arrest the person. The sweatshops and carpet, factories, and etc, are not a concern for the police that's why there are so many sweatshops and carpet factories because no one wants to bust the cruel masters that make these children work for backbreaking hours! They would rather just take a bribe and go instead of doing what…

In the 2013 Salon.com article, “Sweatshops still make your clothes,” author Jake Blimgart uses the idea of sweatshops to convey the message; that the clothing industry must make a change in how clothes are created and the process people face during this creation period. His goals comprise of informing American consumers about how the people are treated, including the facts that many women were sexual harassed, beaten, and fired for trying to create a change. In addition, another goal is to make…

countries overseas, however, there are some things that big businesses could do to decrease the toll that sweatshops have on the environment. They could begin to build their factories in places that are already urbanized to avoid more unnecessary deforestation. They could bring in healthcare and environmental professionals for seasonal or annual inspections of the people and the environment surrounding them. They could also provide their workers with amenities like clean water at work, and maybe…