Sweatshops Is Bad

Branded products are loved by everyone. If you have name brand products, then people perceive you differently. For example a pair of Nike shoes for $190 would be bought without a second thought. In contrast, these name brand products are made for less money by people, who can only dream about being luxurious. Companies’ profit increase by selling expensive products but the people who make them receive no benefit from that. The act of slavery might not be existing publically in the world; however, it is still happening behind the screen which is known as sweatshops. Originally the purpose of sweatshops was to help people in under developed countries to earn money in order to change their living conditions positively. Unfortunately, low salaries,

Sweatshop companies argue that they are creating jobs and helping people to improve their financial standard but the reality is they don’t improve people’s financial standard instead industries just use people’s poverty to maximize their profit margin. Globalexchange.org restates the statement of National Labour Committee as mentioned below.
“According to the National Labor Committee, a worker in El Salvador earns about 24 cents for each NBA jersey she makes. These same jerseys then sell in the U.S. for $140 each. The 60 cents an hour the Salvadoran NBA seamstresses earn covers only about a third of the cost of living, and even the Salvadoran government says this wage leaves a worker in “abject poverty.” In poorer countries such as the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, the wages are even lower.” (globalexchange.org, n.d.)
This little salary gives them only the ability to buy food for their families to survive and not for anything else like for example for furniture or to save money to buy a

Sweatshops contractors are being too greedy by saving money from not providing safe and healthy workplace environment. Contractors’ and companies’ greediness costs workers’ lives very often. There are many incidents which proof that. One of those happened in Vietnam in February. It was in 1997, when 200 sweatshop workers fell ill and were hospitalized by over exposure to acetone, a chemical solvent used in production in McDonalds Happy Meal Toys. However these incidence are reported the factory refused to improve its ventilation system for its workers. Another incident was in Bangladesh in the year 2005. 64 workers were killed and 80 workers were injured. These tragedies were preventable if the factory owners wouldn’t have violated building codes and safety regulations. Such dangerous conditions are very common in sweatshops. Raveena Aulakh, a daily mail reporter, also agrees with that after her experience as an undercover worker in a sweatshop. “A quick tour of the building revealed no fire extinguishers, only one exit - the front door - and little more than a hole in the ground, down a rat-infested hall, for the toilet” (Aulakh, 2013).
The owners don’t only violate safety regulations of a factory but also human rights. Even though the act of child labours prohibited in most of the countries, sweatshops use children. Raveena Aulakh was also shocked when she saw a nine-years-old girl working in the factory,