Phl 320 Sweatshop Labor Research Paper
Sweatshop Labor Paper
PHL/320
02/16/2015
Labor Practices Paper Throughout the past decades the United States has allowed and been faced with sweatshop pro’s and con’s. There have been active sweatshop being utilized and there have also been many protests taking place by concerned government entities, labor boards and student organizations regarding the unethical operations of sweatshops. It is more common for sweatshop to be in operation in Third World countries because sweatshops are considered to be a positive move for economic development in the Third World counties.
Consumer Demands It has been known for an organization from the United States to employee Third World country workers because of supply and demand on a particular …show more content…
It is very common for the sweatshop workers to be paid a general daily pay of $1.00 to $2.00 dollars a day, the employees normally work at least 60-70 hours during a 6 day work week. The employees of the sweatshops are working in dangerous, unhealthy, unreasonable supervision, circumstances causing poor physical and psychological risks for the workers. The sweatshops are commonly known as child and slave labor which creates increasing interest of ethical examination and auditing for these types of inappropriate operating organizations. Sweatshops are considered to be inhuman manufacturing operations. The workers of sweatshops are highly underpaid, which is much lower than the cost of living and working in very poor hazardous conditions. The lack of institutional regulatory efforts of enforcing the proper working conditions compliance is a problem because the proper laws are not being followed by regulatory enforcement. There are no ethical regulations being enforced on the sweatshops, which allow them to continue to operate without making any ethical decisions to better the working conditions. It is common to see children working in a sweatshop instead of attending …show more content…
The sweatshops managers refuse to employee unionized labor workers and threaten the current workers by termination if they are known to be socializing with a union representative. As long as the company’s continue to depend on sweatshop products for a larger margin of profit, the sweatshops will continue to operate in their unethical environments. If the governments in the Third World countries do not enforce regulations to improve the unethical and unsafe working conditions of the sweatshops, the conditions will never change for the abused
PHL/320
02/16/2015
Labor Practices Paper Throughout the past decades the United States has allowed and been faced with sweatshop pro’s and con’s. There have been active sweatshop being utilized and there have also been many protests taking place by concerned government entities, labor boards and student organizations regarding the unethical operations of sweatshops. It is more common for sweatshop to be in operation in Third World countries because sweatshops are considered to be a positive move for economic development in the Third World counties.
Consumer Demands It has been known for an organization from the United States to employee Third World country workers because of supply and demand on a particular …show more content…
It is very common for the sweatshop workers to be paid a general daily pay of $1.00 to $2.00 dollars a day, the employees normally work at least 60-70 hours during a 6 day work week. The employees of the sweatshops are working in dangerous, unhealthy, unreasonable supervision, circumstances causing poor physical and psychological risks for the workers. The sweatshops are commonly known as child and slave labor which creates increasing interest of ethical examination and auditing for these types of inappropriate operating organizations. Sweatshops are considered to be inhuman manufacturing operations. The workers of sweatshops are highly underpaid, which is much lower than the cost of living and working in very poor hazardous conditions. The lack of institutional regulatory efforts of enforcing the proper working conditions compliance is a problem because the proper laws are not being followed by regulatory enforcement. There are no ethical regulations being enforced on the sweatshops, which allow them to continue to operate without making any ethical decisions to better the working conditions. It is common to see children working in a sweatshop instead of attending …show more content…
The sweatshops managers refuse to employee unionized labor workers and threaten the current workers by termination if they are known to be socializing with a union representative. As long as the company’s continue to depend on sweatshop products for a larger margin of profit, the sweatshops will continue to operate in their unethical environments. If the governments in the Third World countries do not enforce regulations to improve the unethical and unsafe working conditions of the sweatshops, the conditions will never change for the abused