Persuasive Speech On Sweatshops

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight, and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived, and died in cotton fields, and sweatshops.”- Stephen Jay Gould. Sweatshops exploit people, and children. They take advantage of their poverty, and there need, for a better life. Sweatshops are one of the worst things that ever happened to the business world, and poor people around the world. Sweatshops should be stopped, and ended.
Sweatshop is a common term used to refer to factories that typically produce apparel; that have very low wages by modern U.S. standards, long working hours, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions; that often don't obey labor laws; and that would generally be considered

61% in Asia, 32% in Africa, and 7% in Latin America. Many of these children are forced to work. They are denied an education, and a normal childhood. Some are confined, and beaten. Some are denied the right to leave the workplace, and go home to their families. Some are even abducted, and forced to work. There are also different types of products that the people in sweatshops make like shoes, clothing, rugs, toys, chocolates, coffee, and bananas. While there are also different age workers some of them are children working which violate child labor laws. Most companies, or factories are checked by inspectors who are paid by the industry. Most of the time they'll call in advanced to arrange a visit. This will give the factory time to make the place look nice, and get rid of the child workers, and tell the workers what to

An example would be the incident that happened in Bangladesh on April 24,2013 where the building collapsed, and left a lot of people injured. The incident could have been prevented if they would have listened to the inspector when he told them that there was a crack in the wall, but they didn’t listen, and when back inside to work. This later caused a riot against the owner of the building. Around the same year several factories where shutdown in Bangladesh, for safety reasons, and in another part of the capital a fire broke out which killed eight people in a fire including its owner. Even though Bangladesh is one of the largest garment country in the retail business it is also one of the poorest there is. Even though most sweatshops are on the eastern side of the world most of them make the clothing, for the western side of the world, for example like the united states, and also