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What Are SweatShops?
- Sweatshops are a factory that violates two or more labor laws, such as those pertaining to wages and benefits, child labor or working hours. They are also a workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline, such as verbal and physical abuse.
- Usually in these sweatshops there are children or adults that are working for not that much money. Many are forced to work 14-16 hours a day seven days a week, with some workers finishing at 3 am only to start again the same morning at 7:30 am.
- Since 1990, more than 400 workers have died and several thousand more have been wounded in 50 major factory fires, and one for example is the Rana Plaza.
- Most sweatshops are are in the east which is near china, India and even in Australia but our main focus is Bangladesh, which is one of the places that has the most sweatshops and the least paid individuals.
The national Garment workers' federation
Why Should You Care ? Rana Plaza
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Works Cited
- “Sweatshops in Bangladesh." War On Want. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2014.
- "Sweatshops and Child Labor." Sweatshops and Child Labor. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014.