The Pros And Cons Of Sweatshops Vs. Slave Labor

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Is there any way you can tell that the clothes on your back, the coffee you sip on
happily, or the bricks that hold up your house were made by adults, teenagers, or
children? The answer is no. While these things make you happy, blood, sweat and tears
are put forth in order for others to survive.
To start off, if you don’t already know what a sweatshop is, its a term often used
to describe a manufacturing facility that is physically or mentally abusive, or that crowds,
confines, or compels workers, or forces them to work long and unreasonable hours,
commonly placed in comparison with slave labor. There exists a fierce debate over the
use of factories that have come to be known as sweatshops, especially in relation to
globalization. Proponents of free trade claim …show more content…

With this being said, this leads to my final discussion over the anti-sweatshop
movement. If you don’t know what the anti-sweatshop movement is, let me explain. The
anti-sweatshop movement refers to campaigns to improve the conditions of workers in
sweatshops, which is manufacturing places characterized by low wages, poor working
conditions and often child labor (https://goo.gl/fWnuyU.) It was established in the mid
1990’s and it obtained tons of attention from many people, and it escalated rather quite
quickly. The best well known incident happened in 1996 when TV star Kathie Lee
Gifford was ambushed by Charles Kernaghan, the director of the National Labor
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Committee, with a young girl who worked for low wages in a Honduran factory making
Gifford’s line of Wal-Mart clothing (https://goo.gl/eSQZJU.) According to nytimes.com,
as of the early 2000s, apparel and footwear factories overseas have slowly

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