Sweatshops

When the term sweatshop is brought up, a lot of things come to mind. Sweatshop workers are not paid enough to live at least somewhat comfortable. They work in unhealthy, harsh conditions. They often work over time but are not rewarded for it. these workers are also abused by, i guess you could call them, their crew leaders. I also think that these type of things happen in counties other than the USA. After doing some research, i found this to be false.

Sweatshops generally began in apparel in the USA when the need for ready to wear clothing was at a high. People from other countires moved to the USA in hopes of a better life. While men got jobs in factories, all that was left for women and children to do is work in apparel since sewing was something they knew. At these places, women and children were forced to work in hazardous conditions and was also common for women to be sexuallu abused in sweatshops. The people did not know how to fight back. But there was a group who did. Recently, Forever 21 was sued for thier use of sweatshops in Los Angeles. The workers were seperated by race and gender and sent to seperate factories where the conditions were unbearable. A group of workers were fed up with the poor conditions and decided to do something about it. They won the case. Forever 21 was forced to make the conditions better for thier workers and they also granted to workers the money they were suspose to be recieving.

Sweatshops do exist all over the world. I do believe that they are terrible places but at the same time, its imperative that they exist. Companies dont want to pay large amounts of money to have thier apparel made so they have it done in sweatshops where they save thousands of dollars. I do believe the conditions should be much better than they are. If your going to be paying these people next to nothing, you can atleast have the facility they work in a pleasant place to be. I guess you could say im in between on the thought of sweatshops. Im not completely for them because of the conditions but im not completely against them because i know they are extremely important to the industry and economy.