Teens Mobilize Against Sweatshops
Sweatshops are factories in which workers have to work for long hours,they don't get paid a lot of money, and unsafe working conditions. They are usually located in Central America, South America, Asia, China, India and some parts of Europe. Sweatshops are created because it is an easy way for companies to get profit by downsizing how much the cost of production was. In order for companies to lower costs, they look for places with low wages. People should boycott sweatshops.
They get paid horribly. Some people can't afford an apartment let alone 2 room place. In the article THE POWER OF PROTEST: Teens Mobilize Against Sweatshop Abuses it says that “They are also paid far less than minimum wage.”. People work a lot in the sweatshops factories. “Walt Disney's Chinese factory employees work 16-hour days, 7 days a week, for wages as low as 12-1/2 cents an hour.” as stated in the article THE POWER OF PROTEST: Teens Mobilize Against Sweatshop Abuses by Marlene Spoerri. : People don't get enough sleep because they are working too much.In the video Apple Accused of Failing to Protect Workers it shows that people are sleeping on the job. …show more content…
In the text Where Sweatshops are a Dream it says that a mother wishes her some could work in a factory because it is less dangerous that getting ran over, but working in a sweatshop is more dangerous. The factories aren't clean, some of them have open wires, you can't go to the bathroom that often, since you have to work a lot you can get a lot of sleep so that can affect your health, some don't give you the correct equipment to have to work there, and the stuff that is i the air may not get circulated or clean so that can affect your lungs and health. In the video How Can Sweatshops Help The Poor Escape Poverty it says that it is free of bodily harm but it really isn't. Some factories ahs lots of wires sticking out and they have bad air circulation so it does harm your
They get paid horribly. Some people can't afford an apartment let alone 2 room place. In the article THE POWER OF PROTEST: Teens Mobilize Against Sweatshop Abuses it says that “They are also paid far less than minimum wage.”. People work a lot in the sweatshops factories. “Walt Disney's Chinese factory employees work 16-hour days, 7 days a week, for wages as low as 12-1/2 cents an hour.” as stated in the article THE POWER OF PROTEST: Teens Mobilize Against Sweatshop Abuses by Marlene Spoerri. : People don't get enough sleep because they are working too much.In the video Apple Accused of Failing to Protect Workers it shows that people are sleeping on the job. …show more content…
In the text Where Sweatshops are a Dream it says that a mother wishes her some could work in a factory because it is less dangerous that getting ran over, but working in a sweatshop is more dangerous. The factories aren't clean, some of them have open wires, you can't go to the bathroom that often, since you have to work a lot you can get a lot of sleep so that can affect your health, some don't give you the correct equipment to have to work there, and the stuff that is i the air may not get circulated or clean so that can affect your lungs and health. In the video How Can Sweatshops Help The Poor Escape Poverty it says that it is free of bodily harm but it really isn't. Some factories ahs lots of wires sticking out and they have bad air circulation so it does harm your