Saturday, January 3, 2009

Sweatshop factories




What is a sweatshop factories is the question i had. Is it something like the factories i seen in New York. Sweatshop factories are nothing that we could image. "What is a sweatshop? A sweatshop is a factory where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including super-low wages, no benefits, filthy or dangerous working conditions, denial of their worker and human rights. Workers in sweatshops typically work long hours for around .25-.60 cents an hour. They are frequently not paid for overtime. When they try to organize unions to demand better conditions, they are often threatened, beaten, and fired instantly. Sweatshops also frequently include other worker abuses such as child labor, dangerous or toxic working conditions, unreasonably long working hours, sexual abuse, beatings and humiliation for mistakes. Most of the clothing and footwear --- and a significant portion of many other products --- that we buy are made in sweatshops in the United States or in other countries." That is labor abuses, the factories are made not to fix the everyday need of the workers. The conditions could be better, they conditions should be better. Around the world, sweatshop workers spend dozens upon dozens of hours a day and week at their sewing machines to make the clothes and shoes hat eventually end up in the stores. The long hours are not the only thing face in the sweatshops Verbal, physical, and sexual abuse are common in sweatshops. Verbal workes have reported to being harassed and bullied by shop managers. workers who they thought are not working fast are targets. Most workers in sweatshops are women which led to the sexual abuse endemic. There is a vast majority of young women in their teens or twenties how are alone because they had to leave home to work in the sweatshops. Sweatshop are the worst work places in the world i like to call them my worst nightmare.
-http://iwhome.com/sasua/faqsweat.html
-http://www.goodmoney.com/directry_sweat.htm
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