The Price of Cheap Labor: Sweatshop Exploitation entire, who work for extremely low wages and in substandard conditions. Factories that do not provide their employees with fair working conditions, decent wages, and those that use child labor may be considered sweatshops. Opinions differ over who should be held responsible for conditions in these factories and what should be done about factories identified as sweatshops. But there seems to be a general consensus that, as a human rights issue, changes need to be made to ensure the safety and well-being of these workers.SweatshopsMany companies outsource their manufacturing in other countries where they can find factories with cheaper labor. However, many of these factories, usually located in third world countries, do not hold their workers to the same standards that we are accustomed to in the United States. Products that commonly come from these sweatshops include clothing, shoes, and rugs. Sweatshops have no benefits and are extremely poorly paid, with employees typically not paid enough to meet basic needs such as food and shelter. Employees working in sweatshops may face long hours with forced overtime, low wages, may be subjected to verbal or physical abuse, crowded and poorly ventilated rooms, and unsafe buildings. Workers are also typically forced or prevented from joining a union. A recent example of the treatment of factory workers is the collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013. Some of the items produced in this factory were clothing for Benetton and The Children... ... middle of paper ......o jobs in the new service economy, and are struggling to find work. And to make matters even worse, if they manage to find a job in the service sector, they are typically paid less than the jobs they lost in the manufacturing sector (Hodson & Sullivan, 2012). Works Cited UNICEF (nd). Children pay a high price for cheap labor. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/pon95/chil0016.html Hodson, R. and Sullivan, TA (2012). The social organization of work (5th ed.). CengagePublishing.Institute for Global Work and Human Rights (2013). Factory collapse in Bangladesh. Retrieved from http://www.globallabourrights.org/campaigns/factory-collapse-in-bangladesh World Fair Trade Organization (2013). 10 principles of fair trade. Retrieved from http://www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=11 http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/index.html

Essay / The Price of Cheap Labor: Sweatshop Exploitation entire, who work for extremely low wages and in substandard conditions. Factories that do not provide their employees with fair working conditions, decent wages, and those that use child labor may be considered sweatshops. Opinions differ over who should be held responsible for conditions in these factories and what should be done about factories identified as sweatshops. But there seems to be a general consensus that, as a human rights issue, changes need to be made to ensure the safety and well-being of these workers.SweatshopsMany companies outsource their manufacturing in other countries where they can find factories with cheaper labor. However, many of these factories, usually located in third world countries, do not hold their workers to the same standards that we are accustomed to in the United States. Products that commonly come from these sweatshops include clothing, shoes, and rugs. Sweatshops have no benefits and are extremely poorly paid, with employees typically not paid enough to meet basic needs such as food and shelter. Employees working in sweatshops may face long hours with forced overtime, low wages, may be subjected to verbal or physical abuse, crowded and poorly ventilated rooms, and unsafe buildings. Workers are also typically forced or prevented from joining a union. A recent example of the treatment of factory workers is the collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013. Some of the items produced in this factory were clothing for Benetton and The Children... ... middle of paper ......o jobs in the new service economy, and are struggling to find work. And to make matters even worse, if they manage to find a job in the service sector, they are typically paid less than the jobs they lost in the manufacturing sector (Hodson & Sullivan, 2012). Works Cited UNICEF (nd). Children pay a high price for cheap labor. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/pon95/chil0016.html Hodson, R. and Sullivan, TA (2012). The social organization of work (5th ed.). CengagePublishing.Institute for Global Work and Human Rights (2013). Factory collapse in Bangladesh. Retrieved from http://www.globallabourrights.org/campaigns/factory-collapse-in-bangladesh World Fair Trade Organization (2013). 10 principles of fair trade. Retrieved from http://www.wfto.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=11 http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/index.html

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