Sweatshops should be externimated
Do you know where your shirt was made? By whom? And under what conditions? In countries around the world - including here in the United States - people are suffering abuses as they make the clothes that we wear. Sweatshop workers are routinely forced to work beyond their physical limits. Even as they toil around the clock, workers are barely paid enough to exist. On-the-job injuries occur regularly, and physical abuse and sexual intimidation are not uncommon. And when workers try to stand up for themselves and form a union, they almost always face repression by factory management - a clear violation of workers' basic human right to freedom of association. Sweatshops are also a hot topic in today’s modern global economy. How would you react when you buy goods known for being made by slave laborers or prisoners who didn’t get pay and had to work in terrible conditions? Some might not care because they are attracted by the low-price, but others might really be concerned about the circumstances behind that product. I belong to the second group of people who are really concerned about the sweatshops issue because sweatshops are still individually happening in my country, Vietnam, and generally in developing or undeveloped countri
How could a nation develop when its citizens always owe debts? Isn’t it wrong to say that “a sweatshop is the first step for a nation to develop”? However, according to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 24, “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay”. According to Short’s study, woman workers face low wages, long hours, poor health conditions, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. They also are subjected to dangerous and inhumane working conditions such as exposure to toxic chemicals, standing in one position for long hours, and even not being allowed to turn their heads to talk to neighboring workers. Workers live in shacks constructed from packing crates they purchase from companies or other refuse; most have no running water, while the water they can use is unclean or stored in containers previously used for chemicals.
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Approximate Word count = 1790
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